Shell Tips !

Here is a quick post about a cheap SAN and secure backup architecture solution for small-sized platform (5/10 servers). In this study case we will see how to use Network Block Devices (nbd) and soft-raid with mdadm. I design it for my personal web platform which is a small one. Last day, I was missing of free space on my backup server and I was angry by the idea to rent a most expensive server to store my backup while I had lot of unused space on my other servers.

1. Initial platform
2. New platform
3. How to do it ?

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Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command. The shell maintains a list of aliases that may be set and unset with the alias and unalias builtin commands.

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Forgot a command or a shortcut in your favorite shell ? Here is a small help sheet with most used commands !

I read it some times for remember me some useful shortcuts that can help you to work faster with bash shell. I does this help sheet sometimes ago and never take time to finish it correctly. May be I’ll do a better version when I’ll have more time :-)
Bash help sheet thema : wildcards, escape keys bounds, tabs keys bounds, controls keys bounds, alt keys bounds…

Download it :
bash help sheet in pdf

bash help sheet in jpg