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More Power
13.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment
Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).
Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30 [...]
The Wonders of 7-Zip
06.Apr.07 | 1 Comment
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of [...]
USB Key Fun -or- What I ended up tossing on my new key
19.Nov.06 | 3 Comments
Earlier this month I acquired a new 1GB USB Key and was pondering what I should do with it. Since then, I discovered Torpark which seemed like something useful to lug around. Last night I realized what would be truly useful, for me, would be a USB Key with my typical blogging apps [...]
