Application Monitoring

Application monitoring

Application monitoring is a very important aspect of a project but unfortunately not much attention is paid to develop the effective monitoring while the projects are still movingh to completions. Once project is complete & live lack of proper monitoring costs in terms of downtime when support persons are not aware if application is having some problems or application not working at all. Continue reading “Application Monitoring”

Backup Commands in Linux & Unix with Usage and Examples

Unix and Linux backup and restore can be done using backup commands tar, cpio ufsdump, dump and restore. Though these commands may be sufficient for small setups in order to take a enterprise backup you have to go in for some custom backup and restore solutions like Symatic netbackup, EMC networker or Amanda.
Any backup solution using these commands depends on the type of backup you are taking as these backup commands offers different capabilities.
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Unix Commands Tutorial

Learn about the Unix commands with their usages and examples.
This Unix command tutorial introduces you with some of the most popular and useful commands used in nix operating system to get you started with Unix.
All Unix OS comes with online manual system, man, which can be used used as ,man , to get more details and complete set of options.
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fsck Command – Check & Repair Linux & Unix File Systems

fsck, similar to chkdsk in windows, checks and repairs the file system in Unix & Linux operating systems. Learn about fsck modes, phases & fsck errors messages

fsck, File System Consistency checK, is a system utility in Unix, Linux and other Unix like systems for checking and repairing file system inconsistencies.

File system can become inconsistent due to several reasons and the most common is abnormal shutdown due to hardware failure, power failure or switching off the system without proper shutdown. Due to these reasons the superblock in a file system is not updated and has mismatched information relating to system data blocks, free blocks and inodes.

fsck in Linux

fsck in this document is refered with reference to ufs file system but it can be used in Linux systems as

fsck -t ext2 /dev/sda3
or
fsck.ext2 /dev/sda3
fsck.ext4 /dev/sda3
fsck.ext3 /dev/sda3

it returns with any of the followig code

0 – No errors
1 – File system errors corrected
2 – System should be rebooted
4 – File system errors left uncorrected
8 – Operational error
16 – Usage or syntax error
32 – Fsck canceled by user request
128 – Shared library error

fsck checks the file systems defined in /etc/fstab in Linux and /etc/vfstab in Unix systems

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