Archive for March 2010

eDirectory Backup / Restore Cheat-Sheet

Posted on March 15, 2010, 1:04 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, ndsbackup, oesLinux.

Here’s a quick cheat-sheet on how to do fast backup of your eDirectory tree from an OES Linux server.  While we’re at it, we’ll do a quick restore of an object. First, let’s back it up!  Let’s grab the whole tree: ndsbackup cvf /tmp/ndsbackup-treeRoot.bak [Root] …note that you will be prompted for the admin user [...]

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How to gather and send support info on a Suse system…

Posted on March 1, 2010, 1:43 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under introductory, supportconfig, suse.

To help someone (like me, for instance) remotely diagnose your Suse system, sometimes you need to send him or her diagnostic info from that system.  Fortunately, Suse has a toolset called “supportutils” to do just that.  This article outlines one of my preferred ways of generating and sending such info.  Note that the examples in [...]

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