I had the pleasure of working with Vinny Valdez at Dell years ago and he never ceases to astound. He just released an automated DVD backup script, visit his blog page to view the python script.
http://vinnyvaldez.blogspot.com/2010/04/automating-batch-video-transcoding.html
One day I hope to graduate to his level of scripting and highly automated workflow. Check him out!
I have a java process on an web application that keeps turning into a zombie. My new task is to kill the zombie and restarted the web application. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been backing up my EC2 cloud servers to S3 using a simple tar script to get the main data from the EBS mounts on each cloud server. I use cron to run the backup each night, saving the data first to the EBS mounts in an /apps/backup directory, then I copy the backup to the S3 storage. Read the rest of this entry »
