This week I moved from the IT department into the Marketing department. I’m still doing web stuff, but from a significantly different perspective. I didn’t even realize how much of a change it would be until I sat down in my new seat in my new cubicle.

I will try to post here a little more often. My hope is to dump a few thoughts after each project, and share any hacks and tips I learn along the way.

This afternoon/evening, I kept beating my head against the keyboard trying to figure out how to fix our photo management app SlideShowPro Director. When we moved our server over to our new SAN, we lost the hard drive (HD) that held all our LAMP based sites. We were able to recover all the data, but we lost most permissions, groups, and owners of the many files.

I eventually just had to reinstall SlideShowPro Director in a new mysql database, import all the tables, and copy over all the media files. Ugly, but now it works.

I just finished setting up all the regular backups for our LAMP server. We’re not going to wait until it’s too late to start backing up.

I just setup a daily cron job to mysqldump and zip each database, and tgz each web directory. Once our new server comes in, those files will be rsync’d to another server.