A Girl Called Amanda

Finally, my second piece of the Case of the Backup Lemon. This one is about a piece of open source software that makes a handy little backup utility on the right equipment. As mentioned in Part 1 of this story,  I inherited a decent machine and a horrible backup application at my new job as […]

The Case of the Backup Lemon

We’ve all had it happen. Start a new sysadmin or IT job and you inherit some really horrible decisions made in the past. So was the case with me, a new Security & System Admin for a small marketing company. One of the first things my new boss tasked me with was managing the backup […]

pure-ftpd

Pure FTP is a nice alternative to the standard VSFTP daemon that comes with many ”Nix flavors. It has the ability to authenticate against mysql, ldap, pam, and the passwd file. You can even chain the authentication methods together to check all or some of them if another fails, this is very nifty if you […]