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@KartikTalwar
KartikTalwar / Documentation.md
Last active May 9, 2024 12:59
Rsync over SSH - (40MB/s over 1GB NICs)

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

  • a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
  • H: preserves hard-links
  • A: preserves ACLs
@UtahDave
UtahDave / saltsample_09252012_01
Created September 26, 2012 02:54 — forked from l2ol33rt/saltsample_09252012_01
Saltstack sample of using states and pillars for users
Here is a sample of how I am currently dealing with users.
Big thanks to uggedal! I used his user states as an example: https://github.com/uggedal/states
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# How to create password hashes
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python -c "import crypt; print crypt.crypt('password', '\$6\$SALTsalt\$')"
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@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: