http://www.web-cp.net/blogs Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:40:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wish i could say i have backups finished done. Unfortunately my computers are just as disorganised as me and so i’m not certain yet without checking a few things which is the latest version i have. I’ll check with the repository but i want to take an abstract look ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/11/21/state-of-backups/ I’ve had quite a busy week as i had to go to uni on monday and then had a job interview tuesday and its the last week before people go off to uni so a last chance to see some friends for a while. I’m still no further forward with ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/09/21/linux-web-cp/ i’m not sure why but currently the machine i use to work on webcp keeps cutting out over the network…. it’s not an overheating problem and its happening with either of the two 3com 3c905 10/100Mbps network cards in there….. i can’t check it at the moment because it hasn’t ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/09/10/network-failures-backups/ Today, I’ve committed a new module to fully support the Zimbra mail suite from within web-cp. If you aren’t familiar with Zimbra, it is a feature-complete open source replacement for Exchange Server. It provides full mail, calendar and document sharing functionality (integrated) as well as mobile connectivity and ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/08/30/zimbra-messaging-suite/ I’ve been a little busy this week and also the PC that i use to test web-cp is waiting for some memory at the moment.. when that arrives i can use it again.. in the meantime i still have the latest source on my laptop so i can work on ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/08/08/backups-update/ This is what a backup of domain.com currently contains: domain.com_web.tar domain.com_webcp_data.txt domain.com_metadata.txt ironman_1185832487.tar In order, domain.com_web.tar is the backup from the apache module for domain.com, domain.com_webcp_data.txt is the backup of the info webcp holds about the domain, domain.com_metadata.txt is the metadata file containing a list of files in the backup. ironman_xxx.tar is a backup of ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/07/30/backups-update-domain-backups-working-fully/ Right now the main thing i’m working on is how a backup of a reseller/domain is done recursing through the users and domains to be backed up. At the moment a reseller backup will provide a choice of domains to backup but all users under those domains will be backed ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/07/30/backups-progress-2/ I was just thinking about how every user of webcp is a user at some level but if you want to backup domains you have to look at domains, not the users who own them, makes sense but would it be easier if we just used various users inside webcp ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/07/30/users/ Okay, i thought i’d provide an update as to what’s going on with the backups module. Everything functions fine as to creating a backup and the process for restore is very similar but putting domain backups inside reseller backups and things like that are more complicated. Due to this i ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/07/29/backups-progress/ Lately, it’s been quite easy to spot that I’m starting to dislike PHP. Over the years I’ve worked with several different languages and all of them have their downsides. These usually pop up when you’re doing some advanced stuff or doing things the language wasn’t made for. It may be ... http://www.web-cp.net/blogs/index.php/2007/04/05/why-i-dislike-php/