Monthly Archives: March 2012

I recently setup a system to manage our companies IP addresses. This was an open source PHP application that ran in Apache and used MySQL for its database. Since I typically don’t have time to manually run a backup (and why would I want to do something the hard way anyhow?) I decided it was time to automate the task. The first issue was what to name the backup files. I wanted at least a few weeks history worth of backups in case something bad was done in the database… Obviously, I could not have 30 files with the same … Continue reading →