Tag: python

  • Automated twitter compilation up to 01 March 2015

    Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 01 March 2015

  • PostgreSQL Backup script (python)

    Perhaps the following will be of use to others. In a nutshell, it’s a python script which backs up a provided list of PostgreSQL databases. I’ve written it for Windows, but it should work on Linux too (just change the paths in the BACKUP_DIR and dumper variables. No doubt it could be changed to query…

  • Automated snapshot backup of an Amazon EBS volume

    I found the following Python script online, but it didn’t really work too well : http://aws-musings.com/manage-ebs-snapshots-with-a-python-script/ EBS – Elastic Block Storage … I had to easy_install boto, to get it to work. I’m not sure the Debian python-boto package in Lenny is up to date. Anyway, $server now has : from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection from…