Month: April 2011


ec2-consistent-snapshot With Mongo

I setup MongoDB on my Amazon EC2 instance knowing full well that it would have to be backed up at some point. I also knew that by using XFS, I could take advantage of filesystem freezing in a similar fashion to LVM snapshots. I had remembered reading about backups on XFS with MySQL being done …

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5 Apps to Increase Mac Productivity

I like to think I have been making the most of what’s available on my Mac. This means taking advantage of some obscure and some not so obscure apps. I want to go through some of those apps and a little about their usage to help others get some of the benefit I get. There …

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