Howto Backup your Bitnami Instance to a Remote Site for Free

Steve Stonebraker posted this in MYSQL, Software on September 16th, 2010

Howto Backup your Bitnami Instance to a Remote Site for Free What you’ll need 1. Install dropbox to c:\My Dropbox 2. The names of the services bitnami uses (from command line type net start to get list of services) 3. A new local user in the administrator group that will just be used to run . . . → Read More: Howto Backup your Bitnami Instance to a Remote Site for Free

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HowTo: Harden Bitnami WampStack WordPress Install

Steve Stonebraker posted this in Security, Windows on July 7th, 2010

Hardening your Windows Bitnami WampStack WordPress Install: By default apache runs under an account with read/write to your entire machine, let’s fix that!

CREATING USERS 1. Create two new local users named apache and filezilla. 2. Add filezilla to the group administrators 3. Click Start -> Run 4. Type services.msc & hit enter 5. Find . . . → Read More: HowTo: Harden Bitnami WampStack WordPress Install

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Howto: Backup your Bitnami Stack’s MySQL DB

Steve Stonebraker posted this in MYSQL, Scripts, Windows on June 26th, 2010

Below I will explain how to take nightly backups of your MySQL database Download and Install: MYSQL GUI Tools 7zip Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools to obtain robocopy

After you install the tools bring up a command prompt and run these commands to copy robocopy to our working folder (1BACKUP_MYSQL):

cd \ cd .. . . . → Read More: Howto: Backup your Bitnami Stack’s MySQL DB

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