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Weekly Snap: Using DRBD with Redhat, Time Machine with Network Sharing & Coding with Artistic Style

by | Jun 20, 2011 | WeeklySnap

13 – 17 June offered tips galore, from implementing code standards to using Time Machine with network drives and DRBD with Redhat.
To begin, Julian updated his tip for Apple Time Machine with network sharing. Previously, he explained how to set up Time Machine to back up to shared network drives with the help of Snow Leopard. Now in 8 steps, he offered a new method starting from setting a hidden configuration parameter, host name and MAC address, to creating a local sparse bundle on the network drive and adjusting Time Machine’s settings.
From using shared storage to avoiding them, Philipp shared his recipe for using DRDB to mirror hard disks over multiple servers on Redhat. He first offered a simple method with CentOS Extra Repository that works for versions up to RHEL 5.6. For version 6 and onwards, Philipp showed how to prepare and compile a DRBD package to allow DRBD to be used as the kernel module.
To close the week, Marius gave developers a helping hand in dealing with unreadable code. Following on from a prior post on PHP coding standards, he found that most tools which homogenise code tend to rigidly follow standards such as K&R and Allman. As a substitute he suggested Artistic Style (Astyle) for more freedom and speed in formatting code. Written in C++, it modifies the entire code base within seconds and allows the user to finely prescribe his own standards in configuration. Marius gave an example using Oracle’s Java coding conventions, and then used Astyle to apply his new standard to the relevant files.
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