Until a couple of months ago I’ve been happily maintaining my open source ePortfolio manager on the Google Code site (which uses subversion for version control). The Google code site is due to close. Google are therefore asking everyone to shift their code elsewhere and offering a handy service to export to github (a popular code sharing site) on your behalf. I took advantage of this service to back up all of the code from Google. It now resides here…
In this post I wanted to highlight how I back up individual WordPress installations on the Linux server handling ePortfolios and store these on a shared folder on a Windows Server 2008 machine. From there they are part of the backup/archiving process which is beyond my remit. All was going well until we had to replace our Linux backup machine which I used SCP to copy to. We shifted the backups to a Windows 2008 server copying to it via…
While working on the new portal I have been storing the page content and news items in plain text files. From a personal perspective this has advanced my understanding of handling files in php rather than setting up the usual CRUD functions to talk a databse. I have set up two folders: one to hold the page content for the site and the other to hold the news items (which I aim to provide as an on-demand rss feed). For…