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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# call like this on the target server:
# NODENAME='foo' CHEF_ENV='production' RUNLIST='["role[foo]","recipe[bar]"]' CHEFREPO='git@example.com:repo.git' bash <( curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/1026628 )
# You will need to ensure that the ssh key is already set up on the server.

set -e

export CHEF_DIR="${HOME}/chef"
sudo rm -rf $CHEF_DIR
mkdir -p "$CHEF_DIR"

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#!/bin/sh

## you'll have to do a couple extra steps to get this running
## there are probably other ways to handle svncanboot, but this is from the linux forum

set -e

if
   touch /etc/_testr_file
then

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#!/bin/bash
# herein we backup our indexes! this script should run at like 6pm or something, after logstash
# rotates to a new ES index and theres no new data coming in to the old one. we grab metadatas,
# compress the data files, create a restore script, and push it all up to S3.
TODAY=`date +"%Y.%m.%d"`
INDEXNAME="logstash-$TODAY" # this had better match the index name in ES
INDEXDIR="/usr/local/elasticsearch/data/logstash/nodes/0/indices/"
BACKUPCMD="/usr/local/backupTools/s3cmd --config=/usr/local/backupTools/s3cfg put"
BACKUPDIR="/mnt/es-backups/"
YEARMONTH=`date +"%Y-%m"`

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filter {
  # strip the syslog PRI part and create facility and severity fields.
  # the original syslog message is saved in field %{syslog_raw_message}.
  # the extracted PRI is available in the %{syslog_pri} field.
  #
  # You get %{syslog_facility_code} and %{syslog_severity_code} fields.
  # You also get %{syslog_facility} and %{syslog_severity} fields if the
  # use_labels option is set True (the default) on syslog_pri filter.
  grok {
    type => "syslog-relay"

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Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

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# Create 4 volumes and attach them to hdb
%w[sdi sdj sdk sdl].each do |dev|
  volume = AWS.volumes.new :device => "/dev/#{dev}", :size => 5, :availability_zone => hdb.availability_zone
  volume.server = hdb
  volume.save
end

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Usage:

ruby aws.rb launch [--region region --aws-key aws_key --aws-secret aws_secret --security-group security_group --key-pair key_pair --key-path key_path --ami-id ami_id--flavor-id flavor_id ]  

ruby aws.rb terminate [--region region --aws-key aws_key --aws-secret aws_secret] --instance-id instance_id  

ruby aws.rb attach [--region region --aws-key aws_key --aws-secret aws_secret] --instance-id instance_id --volume-id volume_id
No arguments provided

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'fog'

config = YAML.load(File.read(ARGV[0]))
volumes_to_snap = YAML.load(File.read(ARGV[1]))
time = Time.now

puts "\nCreating snaps #{time.to_s}"

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Restore MySQL from Amazon S3

This is a hands-on way to pull down a set of MySQL dumps from Amazon S3 and restore your database with it

Sister Document - Backup MySQL to Amazon S3 - read that first

1 - Set your MySQL password and S3 bucket, make a temp dir, get a list of snapshots

# Set our variables

export mysqlpass="ROOTPASSWORD"

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#!/bin/bash
##################################################
#
# s3-s3cmd-sync-dated-dirs.sh
#
# Easily download content in dated directory
# structures from s3.
#
# 
# https://gist.github.com/imperialWicket