Matthew Steven - Virtual Servers and Services

Copying a Virtual Machine lv or Partition Over SSH

Matt — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:26:36 +0000

Copying a Logical Volume or Partition over SSH

This should only be attempted on either a snapshot lvm volume, or an unmounted hard drive partition!

Using ssh and dd you can copy any LVM or (unmounted) hard drive partition over the internet to a new machine easily. You can do a "push" or "pull" copy. Here's a "push" copy:

dd if=/dev/vg0/partition-snapshot bs=1k |
ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/vg0/partition-destination bs=1k

Recipes for Redirection, Apache and Javascript Examples

Matt — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:52:10 +0000

The best way to redirect a page is to use Apache's mod_rewrite. Notoriously cryptic it is, but it's fast and not too hard to figure out for basic things. Here's an example mod_rewrite to redirect http to https. Put it in your apache config preferably, or your .htaccess file if you can't modify your config directly.

Avoiding Network Solutions Transfer Dirty Tricks

Matt — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:47:20 +0000

Ever try to transfer a domain off of Network Solutions before it expires? Don’t do it until you read this and avoid my mistake. Here’s the process.