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Logging With Growl

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I recognize that this is old news for some, but I've finally had reason to use the Growl module for Drupal. Getting fast reporting of logged errors is really handy without having to flip through tabs to find out what thing I just broke. There are not any instructions with the module, but it is easy enough to get it up and running. The real trick is making sure that you have the grownotify script in the correct place. Using this on your localhost is probably the simplist way to go given you will need to negotiate firewalls and IPs if you are trying to debug a remote server.

OS X and rdiff-backup woes

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I use a set of scripts called BackupNinja that I use to manage backups for my server. It is a great tool to manage mysql dumps and file system backups (among other things) as well as doing scheduled backups. My beef with it has always been its dependencies- rdiff-backup does not like to have version miss matches between server and the backup target. Though this seems a simple matter- just compile from source the same versions on each box, with dependencies it can be a bare.

Having switched over the machine that I use to store the backups to be primarily OS X, I figured things were going to be annoying, but it took me some time to figure out what exactly the problem was.