geek: September 2007 Archives

Here's the situation: as a cheapskate I've opted to downgrade from a dedicated server to a virtual server. Saves me £35 a month. Fine. However, it means I lose the terribly convenient backup storage that came with the dedicated server.

Now, as a cheapskate, I don't want to end up paying for more storage somewhere else. But I noticed I get 150 mailboxes with the ISP and up to 25GB storage across the lot. So what I do is back up my server to a dedicated mail account. I just zip the folders I want to back up, split them if necessary into 40MB chunks, encrypt them, zip them up again and mail them to that dedicated account.

Simple, free, easy.

If you use http://search.cpan.org/ you can add perldoc?Name::Of::Module to get straight to the documentation for any module. This is very handy for modules that the search facility doesn't find, like FCGI for instance.

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?FCGI