Peak Backup LLC

Peak Backup Easter Sale - $1,575 Off 100 OEM ACB Purchase

2011-04-19T16:21:00.000-07:00

Sale Link: http://www.peakbackup.com/OEM-ACB-Easter-Sale.html
From now through 30 April 2011, Peak Backup has OEM ACB packages in quantities of 100 for 45% off list. The $3,500 list is on sale for $1,925. That’s $1,575 off list! This is new licensing and comes with one year of maintenance. There are only have 15 packages, and the sale ends 30 April 2011.

The purchase for each $1,925 includes 100 Ahsay OEM ACB. You may issue this as a new license key or add to your existing licensing (if that licensing has current maintenance).
Maintenance after 1 year is $3 per ACB. Don't forget Peak Backup offers additional discounts for maintenance renewal.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Sincerely,
Jim Robinson
Selling Ahsay Since 2004
Ahsay Discount Software Sales
719-433-4230

2010-11-23T19:28:00.000-08:00

AHSAY YEAR-END SALE

Ahsay announced an end of year promotion. Peak Backup is offering this promotion PLUS 5% off. With a minimum of quantity 25, you will receive an additional:

· 30% more for OBM
· 40% more for ACB
· 50% more for Mailbox Level Add-on

To order, follow this link: http://www.peakbackup.com/OEM-Purchase
Through 12/31/2010, we’ll add your additional licensing after your purchase. Minimum order to qualify is quantity 25 of each product respectively.

KOR COMPUTING PROMOTION

As many of you know, Kor Computing is major provider of Virtual Offsite Backup Servers and Data Replication. Kor Computing and Peak Backup have referred business to the other for years. In October of this year, Stone Bridge Data acquired Kor Computing. In Q1 of 2011, Kor Computing will expand and have a cage and redundant GigE Internet connections.

If you’re on the fence with backing up your business or starting an online backup business, Kor Computing is offering this promotion through 12/31/2010:

· For new Virtual Backup customers, Kor Computing will have a new Ahsay 10 license OEM ACB created for you to use. After one year of service, the licensing is yours. Ahsay list is $400.
· For new Virtual Backup customers that have their own backup licensing (any vendor), Kor Computing will offer the three months of minimum free ($75.00).
· For new Replication customers, Kor Computing will offer the three months of minimum free ($37.50).
· If you’re an existing Kor Computing customer and have purchased from Peak Backup before, contact Kor Computing by Thanksgiving, and you’ll get one month credit of the minimum.

Kor Computing
888-365-2550
http://www.korcomputing.com/

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Thanks for making Peak Backup successful this year!

Jim

Newsletter - Jan 2010

2010-01-25T21:46:00.001-08:00

New Cart

The Peak Backup shopping cart has changed since 2009. On January 1, 2010, we needed to migrate to a new cart platform for a number of limiting pricing options. Migration of accounts was not available. If you ordered in 2009, you can find your historical information here:
http://www.peakbackup.com/2009
For new orders (if you haven’t already) in 2010, you’ll need to create a new account on Peak Backup’s website.

New Cart Specials

For special pricing, this is a permanent page added in 2010:
http://www.peakbackup.com/Ahsay-Special-Used/

Business for Sale

If your online backup business has cash flow and you’re interested in selling, contact Peak Backup.

Ahsay Release Subscription

Ahsay has been relaying this in their correspondence recently…
For news on the latest update, please subscribe to the following RSS: http://rss.ahsay.com/rss/technical-updates.rss

Peak Backup Discount Changes

Ahsay did change our negotiating limits for 2010, so the following link shows the product discounts:
http://www.peakbackup.com/FAQS.html
The two big changes are (1) previously we could offer 12.5% off repurchase, this is now 5%; (2) we can add to licensing not originally issued by Peak Backup.

Affiliate Link

You’ll see an affiliate link on the new cart. It’s not active even though there is wording. I’m considering investing in an affiliate program versus online advertising. So, I’ll send a follow-up newsletter soon if that is the path we decide.

Sincerely,

Jim Robinson
719-433-4230
www.peakbackup.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmyrobinson (New 2010 - Feel free to add to your network)

Jim's Input on Ahsay's Price Increase

2009-12-08T21:50:00.000-08:00

I've been using the software since 2004. The 2010 price change to me is merely a bump in the road. The product was very underpriced for years. Take a look on the market for 2009. Ahsay will dominate their market completely in 1-3 years because of new and developing focus: increased quality assurance; support staff and hours are increasing; and the product line is having an extreme focus and performance. I look at the price increase as a move to ensure their presence. And if you are using Ahsay, it's your presence too. Don't look at quantity of 1. Yes, those jump off the page. I always look at big numbers like quantity 1,000 OBM.

I hear so many statements about "my business plan" is shot. Really? I've spoken and e-mailed with hundreds (yes, literally), and there are not too many business savvy deployments out there. I've attempted twice in the past five years to setup a co-op for Ahsay partners where we could buy in $50,000-$100,000 bulk purchases, but when push comes to shove, the "my business plan" doesn't have any real demographics, so people don't buy in bulk. They buy the minimum possible. If you ask yourself how to compete with M*** or Carbon***, then I'll help--don't! Scherring from Ahsay said it best in that even if Ahsay gave you the software free, you couldn't afford the hardware infrastructure.

Are the Ahsay pricing levels for 2010 reasonable for the industry? Yes. Shop around.

Are the pricing levels relative to Ahsay themselves steep? Only with ACB. It's the new flagship though, and file backup is easy and profitable.

Ciao,

Jim Robinson, MBA, PMP

2009 Sale and 2010 Price Changes

2009-12-08T21:49:00.000-08:00

I wanted to get some year-end information out.

Ahsay Price Changes

Ahsay is introducing price changes for 2010. Their forum is active because some don't want higher prices while others embrace the change with Ahsay's new quality assurance going full swing. One great feature is that Ahsay will increase free account sizes from 500MB to "at least" 2GB.

You can view list pricing here: http://www.ahsay.com/en/partners/ahsay_partners_pricing.html

Ahsay Reseller Changes

Peak Backup will continue to support and sell the Ahsay product line. Almost all resellers are being dropped in 2010. I was on the phone with Ahsay's sales manager two days this week already, and I did not ask why the realignment of resellers is taking place.
Peak Backup Changes

With Ahsay's focus on quantity versus packages, I'm not sure the shopping can handle the new structure. So, I'm evaluating this. You may see a new cart for 2010.

The discounting of 5% initial, 12.5% for repurchase, and 10% off maintenance will be similar. The only number I expect to modify is 12.5% for repurchase to 10%. This is alignment with pricing changes for 2010. I am not trying to squeeze any more profit.

Peak Backup will focus only on OEM (brandable) sales. We'll support existing Standard clients.

DECEMBER SALE

In preparation for higher 2010 pricing, I've made major purchasing commitments in 2009 to help all add licensing or get into the software before price changes. I have the Peak Backup sale going through December 22, 2009 so I can enjoy some time with the family. I may add an extension from December 28 through December 31, 2009; however, it will be less than the 25% now.

I personnally do not like offering a high discount sale because it leaves people out who purchased in previous months. This is really driven by offsetting some purchasing pricing that was not announced by Ahsay until recently. So, I'm offerring only the two most popular packages to keep this sale focused and coupled with our Dec - Feb committment with Ahsay.

25% off Ahsay List. The following two packages will be on sale at PeakBackup.com until December 22, 2009. This is for new licensing or existing license issued by PeakBackup.com or Ahsay.com directly. If you are adding to an existing license, include that license name at checkout. The two products with major discounting are:

1. OEM All-In-One 25 License / 25 Mailbox
http://www.peakbackup.com/products/OEM-All%252dIn%252dOne-25-License-%7B47%7D-25-Mailbox.html

2. OEM ACB 100 License
http://www.peakbackup.com/products/OEM-ACB-100-License.html

Use this code at checkout and ensure the pricing is reduced before you pay: Dec2009

Note: The only change is that the normal 1-2 day business turnaround will be 2-3 days. This is accounting for expected year-end delays associate with the ordering surge.

5.5.3.X Upgrade Recommendations

2009-10-02T19:11:00.000-07:00

Upgrading Ahsay with any release is fairly straight-forward and requires near-zero downtime if you're quick (implemented it by script). When upgrading from 5.5.2.X (or earlier) to 5.5.3.X (or higher), you need to schedule some downtime to let the system implement the new indexing that ultimately greatly enhances performance. None of this is official from Ahsay, but here is how Peak Backup upgraded our servers:

1. Schedule a maintenance window with your customers. Your window depends on the size of your user home directory sizes. Make it something equivalent to the time it takes to perform a recursive directory listing.

2. Disable replication. If something goes wrong, you'll still have your data is good working order.

3. Perform an initial file copy to retain your customization and settings per the administrator upgrade guide. Peak Backup uses rsync instead of copy because of logs files involved in step 6.

4. Prevent users from backup. Either plumb down the network interface or suspend all accounts (http://peakbackup.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-ahsay-accounts-suspended.html)

5. Shutdown the service.

6. Perform a second copy of the system logs. Copy could take a while if you’re using copy. Hopefully you'll consider a rsync-like protocol (then it’s 5 seconds).

7. Start the service. With this specific upgrade, Ahsay software knows that performance indexing needs to be performed. It will parse over every file in the user home directories. You can watch this in the logs.

8. When indexing is complete, enable your network interface or enable all users (whatever method you chose).

9. Checkout completely, then enable replication.

10. Wait a week before auto-upgrading your clients.

NOTE: Our upgrades are literally as fast as a service restart plus 5 seconds and do not require preventing user backup access as soon as the service is back online. This specific release recommendation suggests extended downtime for indexing. This is the first time in years of using the software where we just had to show patience and let the system run.

Jim Robinson
Peak Backup LLC
http://www.peakbackup.com

5.5.3.X Upgrade

2009-08-10T06:49:00.000-07:00

What happens when you upgrade or you incorrectly modify a license file and some (or all accounts) are set to suspended, infile delta disabled, and shadow copy disabled? Instead of logging into the system and spending hours clicking enable on each account, the following works perfectly in Linux.

==============================
cd /directory/above/userfolder
ls userfolder >/tmp/modify.txt
for n in `cat /tmp/modify.txt`
do
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=SYSUSER&SysPwd=SYSPASSWORD&LoginName='$n'&Status=ENABLE'
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=SYSUSER&SysPwd=SYSPASSWORD&LoginName='$n'&EnableShadowCopy=Y'
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=SYSUSER&SysPwd=SYSPASSWORD&LoginName='$n'&EnableInFileDelta=Y'
done
==============================

NOTE: EACH curl is one line (it's wrapping due to the length)

EXAMPLE
User storage is /storage/users
syspass: PEAK
password: BACKUP

cd /storage
ls users>/tmp/modify.txt
for n in `cat /tmp/modify.txt`
do
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=PEAK&SysPwd=BACKUP&LoginName='$n'&Status=ENABLE'
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=PEAK&SysPwd=BACKUP&LoginName='$n'&EnableShadowCopy=Y'
curl 'http://localhost/obs/api/ModifyUser.do?SysUser=PEAK&SysPwd=BACKUP&LoginName='$n'&EnableInFileDelta=Y'
done

MySQL Backup

2009-06-01T22:41:00.000-07:00

Below is what we use to backup MySQL databases.

#!/bin/bash

NOW=`date +"%m-%d-%Y-%H:%M"`;
BACKUPDIR="/backup/mysql/$NOW";

### Server Setup ###
#* MySQL login user name *#
MUSER="CHANGE";

#* MySQL login PASSWORD name *#
MPASS="CHANGE";

#* MySQL login HOST name *#
MHOST="localhost"; #or IP
MPORT="3306"; #standard port is 3306

# DO NOT BACKUP these databases
IGNOREDB="
information_schema
mysql
test
"

#* MySQL binaries *#
MYSQL=`which mysql`;
MYSQLDUMP=`which mysqldump`;
GZIP=`which gzip`;

# assuming that /nas is mounted via /etc/fstab
if [ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
else
:
fi

# get all database listing
DBS="$(mysql -u $MUSER -p$MPASS -h $MHOST -P $MPORT -Bse 'show databases')"

# SET DATE AND TIME FOR THE FILE
NOW=`date +"d%dh%Hm%Ms%S"`; # day-hour-minute-sec format
# start to dump database one by one
for db in $DBS
do
DUMP="yes";
if [ "$IGNOREDB" != "" ]; then
for i in $IGNOREDB # Store all value of $IGNOREDB ON i
do
if [ "$db" == "$i" ]; then # If result of $DBS(db) is equal to $IGNOREDB(i) then
DUMP="NO"; # SET value of DUMP to "no"
#echo "$i database is being ignored!";
fi
done
fi

if [ "$DUMP" == "yes" ]; then # If value of DUMP is "yes" then backup database
#FILE="$BACKUPDIR/$NOW-$db.gz";
FILE="$BACKUPDIR/$db.gz";
#echo "BACKING UP $db";
$MYSQLDUMP --add-drop-database --opt --lock-all-tables -u $MUSER -p $MPASS -h $MHOST -P $MPORT $db gzip > $FILE
fi
done

AhsayPro Expansion

2009-04-22T18:51:00.000-07:00

The AhsayPro site was originally setup to showcase an example usage of Ahsay's API. From that experiment, both AhsayPro.com and the PeakAPI.com have grown quite a bit. The AhsayPro server is one to two months away from a colocation move. Besides heavier bandwith needs, our goal was to find a SAS Type II Colocation. I found an unbelievable data center with $3.99/mbps for bandwidth. In the interview process, I found most of their business is referral. So, I setup a site that highlights the data center. Who knows, maybe a few referrals will help negotiate an even better deal down the road!

Check out http://www.sasbandwidth.com

For AhsayPro users, storage location will be SAS Type II hosted soon.

Jim Robinson
PeakBackup.com

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T16:24:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter.

There's lots going on this past month. From adding a partner to Springs Data, making a ton of enhancements to the PeakAPI.com solution to the snow storm today.

PeakBackup.com: The site's merchant processing is now working 100%. There has never been a security issue, but the American Express and Paypal are online for payment.

PeakAPI.com: The roadmap will be updated soon. There are many enhancement for administrator control as well as security patches. April will bring an enhancement release. May is the month we're hoping to have the proof of concept for WHMCS online with AhsayPro.com. If that goes well, the WHMCS release will finally be released.

SpringsData.com: We've added Rob as a partner and now have SAS Type II data center services available.

New Website

2009-02-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

Blogs, forum posts, and PeakAPI has stalled with the release of www.peakbackup.com. It's now production as of this post. More interesting posts here to come.

Your Main Backup and Replication Data Are Gone

2008-12-03T21:15:00.000-08:00

Without replication what would happen if your Ahsay OBS user partition became corrupted?

The following options are preventative. They don't save your data, but they do enable you to recover all users and profiles; thus, allowing all client to perform a full backup immediately.

Just a thought!

#/bin/bash
#Author: Jim Robinson
#Date: 3 Dec 2008
#Contact: www.PeakBackup.com
#
#Description: Backup all user db information to include reports

filename=`date +%d%m%Y-%H:%M`

find /path/to/a/directory/ \
/path/to/another/directory2/ \
/path/to/another/diretory3 \
-name db -maxdepth 2 -type d | zip -rp $filename.zip -@

-----------------------------------------------------------------

#/bin/bash
#Author: Jim Robinson
#Date: 3 Dec 2008
#Contact: www.PeakBackup.com
#
#Description: Backup user login and backup set information only

filename=`date +%d%m%Y-%H:%M`

find /path/to/a/directory/ \
/path/to/another/directory2/ \
/path/to/another/diretory3 \
-name Profile.xml -maxdepth 3 -type f | zip -rp $filename.zip -@

Ahsay End of Year Sale

2008-11-30T22:39:00.000-08:00

Through December 2008, Peak Backup is honoring Ahsay's 40% more sale for items on our shopping cart, http://shop.peakbackup.com.

Ahsay Year-End Sale. 40% more with your purchase is honored at Peak Backup. Applies to SOHO, All-in-one; ACB 50 or greater; If All-in-one, licenses count is increased by 40%, however mailbox count is not. Offer does not apply to Mailbox Add-On.

Recover the Administrator Login for Ahsay OBS

2008-09-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

To recover the Ahsay OBS administrator login....

--Change directories to OBS HOME/conf

--Copy obs.xml to date.obs.xml (just in case)

--Edit obs.xml

--About two lines down you'll see the user/password/hashed for the system login. IE:
----user="system" password="T21egV9cwUi2neWVIDgytQ==" hashed-pwd="Y"

--Change the password to a temp plain text password, then change hashed to N. IE:
----user="system" password="changme" hashed-pwd="N"

--Restart OBS

Now you can login to OBS using system/changeme.

--Reset the administrator password, and it will be converted in the obs.xml to hashed again.

Note: This post does not address encryption keys on a backup set. If you ever lose the encryption key for a backup set, you're in trouble.

Linux Commandline Restart Ahsay OBS

2008-08-02T00:12:00.000-07:00

So, much for montly postings. Here's a good one.

Here's a very quick way to restart Ahsay's OBS cleanly and without impacting backup clients. The software client will reconnect (much like a network bump).

1. First line is #!/bin/bash
2. Place contents in a filed called "restartAhsay.bash"
3. #chmod 700 restartAhsay.bash
4. Restart! #./restartAhsay.bash

#!/bin/bash

echo `date` >> /root/restartLog.txt
echo "Stopping OBS" >> /root/restartLog.txt
nice -19 service obs stop

sleep 2

pid=`ps -ef |grep obs |grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`
if [ $pid ]; then
kill -9 $pid
fi

nohup nice -19 service obs start

echo `date` >> /root/restartLog.txt
echo "OBS Started" >> /root/restartLog.txt
echo >> /root/restartLog.txt

echo "OBS Server Restarted at `date`" mail -s "Peak Backup OBS Restart Status" e-mail@peakbackup.com

Our 5th Full Page Ad in Smart Computing for 2008

2008-05-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

What is Ahsay Backup Software Service Provider Edition? An easy, secure, and brandable backup software that enables you to start a profitable online backup business.

Peak Backup is an Ahsay Authorized Reseller and has helped companies since 2004 with purchasing Ahsay software and providing startup support to include: data center storage hosting, website design, and Ahsay API integration.

Ahsay is the leader in online backup software that allows you to fully brand the software into your own label while enabling total data protection and disaster recovery solutions for your customers. Ahsay Systems Corporation has been developing reliable and stable online backup software since early 2001. Their software is used by over 1,900 service providers and 700,000 users.

How It Works

· Purchase Ahsay software from Peak Backup
· Install on a main server
· Customize installers and reports to your company name
· Install client software on thousands of computers
· Bill your clients using Ahsay’s billing module or API

Features & Benefits

· Simple and secure
· Incremental backup
· Continuous data protection
· OS support: Windows, Linux, Mac, NetWare, and NAS devices
· Database support: Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle, and MySQL

Application Sales Changes

2008-05-05T08:23:00.001-07:00

As of 5/1/2008, Peak Backup LLC has restructured what products we offer for Ahsay. We now offer:

AHSAY
--OEM
--Standard

We no longer offer:
--A-la-carte
--Business Edition
--Leasing

Why? OEM and Standard sales fit 95% of the business models that exist. Offering more product has introduced confusion and unwarranted sales delay.

PEAK BACKUP LLC

We have dropped the Reseller API price from $999 to $499.

You can view all pricing at http://shop.peakbackup.com

Advertising

2008-01-20T09:35:00.000-08:00

Check out the March 2008 issue of Smart Computing. We have the entire back cover! There is also a "redeem code" there for an extra $25 off our already discounted Ahsay prices.

Linux Plesk Backup

2008-01-20T09:23:00.000-08:00

This is a continuation of our Linux command line backup blog post from January 2008.

Plesk has its own set of utilities for backup. So, simply run a pre-command with Ahsay's OBM client, backup the Plesk native file(s), and you're done.

Here's what to do:

#mkdir /pleskbackup

In the backup set, run this pre-command without the quotes:
"/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup all /pleskbackup/pleskbackup"

In the backup set, you only need to backup this directory without the quotes:
"/pleskbackup"

NOTES:
--You don't need to enable in-file delta. The way Plesk writes the file causes 80-100% of the file to change. So, every backup will be a full backup.
--Backing up Plesk this way enables a full backup of files; customers; databases; spam settings; and so on. It's very comprehensive
--Read more on pleskbackup command if you need to backup a single account versus the entire server.
--We do not keep the Ahsay service running on any command line Linux server. We recommend running from crontab.

Linux Server Causing Missed Backups

2008-01-12T09:03:00.000-08:00

Some time back we had missed backup sets being sent out. Turns out the timezone on the Linux OBS was wrong. This could be the case for any OS server. Below is the quick timezone fix for linux:

--identify tmizone location from /usr/share/zoneinfo
--copy this file to /etc/localtime (replacing the file there) - that's it
--example, #cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna /etc/localtime

Another way if you're lucky: #system-config-date

This will make your online backup software reporting more reliable--with the correct timezone.

OBM Client and Command Line Linux

2008-01-05T14:52:00.000-08:00

Here are some nice to knows about running online backup software, Ahsay's OBM, client on a linux machine without X (GUI/Desktop). All actions are performed as user with root-level access below.

1. Create the backup account on OBS (backup server). Encryption key will be set later in this guide.
2. Create a backup set using the web console. Be sure to minimally fill out:
--Name
--Type
--Backup Source
--Backup Schedule
--"Run scheduled backup on computers named" ________ (use #hostname on the linux machine if you don't know the name)
--Retention Customization Policy
--After clicking update, click back on backup set to ensure everything is as you expect.

Staging
1. Place the install tar.gz on the linux machine
IE, #wget http://IPofOBS/obs/download/obm-nix.tar.gz where OBS is the main backup server.

Extract Install Files
1. #mkdir /usr/local/obm
2. #cd /usr/local/obmgunzip obm-nix.tar.gz
3. #tar -xf obm-nix.tar

Install
1. #./bin/install.sh >install.log
2. Look for any install issues #cat install.log
3. Ensure obm is now running. Should be output from: # ps -ef grep obm

Start Configurator to Associate Backup Account with Linux Machine
1. #sh /usr/local/obm/bin/Configurator.sh

NOTE: If you receive any java heap errors, the application is trying to use more physical memory than you have available.

HEAP Workaround: #cd /usr/local/obm/bin Use vi or whatever you like to replace Xmx512m or Xmx256m in both Configurator.sh and RunBackupSet.sh (only one entry in each). We've used Xmx32m in both files and it works fine.

2)
Login Name: username (account name that you created in the console)
Password: ******************* (password of account name)
Backup Server URL: backup.ahsaypro.com (for example)
Which Protocol ? (1) Http (2) Https : 2 (use https, ssl, unless there's a good reason not to)
Use proxy ? (Y)es or (N)o : N NOTE: if you enter N, the following will not show
Proxy Type ? (1) Http/Https Proxy (2) SOCKS : 1
Enter proxy server : aaa.bbb.comEnter proxy port : xxx
Enter proxy username (optional) : administrator
Enter proxy password (optional) : *******************

Encryption and Running on Computer

Found new backup set 'xxx' where xxx is the name of your backup set
Please enter the following values for this backup set:

Encrypting Algorithm ?(1) Twofish (2) AES (3) Triple DES (4) No encryption : 2 (personal preference)
Encrypting Key: *******************
Re-Enter Encrypting Key: ******************* NOTE: Never forget this password! Encrypting Mode ? (1) ECB (2) CBC : 1 (personal preference)
Run scheduled backup on this computer ? (Y)es or (N)o : Y NOTE: If you select N, the backup set will not run on a schedule on this computer.

Optional Running Backup Set

You don't have to run this now; however, it'll get your data protected now, and it'll prove all above worked.

# sh /usr/local/obm/bin/RunBackupSet.sh [BACKUP_SET]
where [BACKUP_SET] is the name of backup set to be run. IE, if you created BackupSet-0:

#sh /usr/local/obm/bin/RunBackupSet.sh BackupSet-0

Stopping and Starting Processes

If you need to manually stop / start process, create an executable file name.

Stop

#cat stop.sh
sh "/etc/init.d/obmscheduler" stop
sh "/etc/init.d/obmaua" stop

Start
#cat start.sh
sh "/etc/init.d/obmscheduler" start &
sh "/etc/init.d/obmaua" start &

------------------------------------------

If you don't want to use resources with leaving the scheduler running, use native cron in linux:

#crontab -e
0 0 * * * /usr/local/obm/bin/RunBackupSet.sh BackupSet-0

where first five entries are
minute
hour
day
month
week of year

and BackupSet-0 is the name of your backup set.

SLA and Legal Entities

2007-12-22T09:32:00.000-08:00

I found this in our archive. Many providers in the market either don't have SLA's or are not setup as a protective entity: LLC, S Corp., C Corp., etc.

Even though this real claim below against us would have lost in court, it should be a wakeup call to anyone running under a non-protected legal entity....

Jim Robinson, Peak Backup LLC

Online Backup Software

- - - - - - - - -

Gentlemen,

It was brought to my attention today by our corporate attorneys that you are disseminating misleading, inaccurate, and potentially damaging information about our company and products via your website.

The page in reference is located here:

[Peak Backup LLC url removed]

[approaching company name removed]

While we understand your business model, we don't understand why you would intentionally try to 'unsell' our software as compared to your service or reseller program - as we do not offer remote backup services to end users in any capacity.

What we do understand is that you are deliberately misrepresenting our product and its capabilities - perhaps in an effort to defame our company, deliberately and intentionally confuse the marketplace, disseminate false and misleading information under the guise of competitive intelligence, interfere with our business practices, and/or to interfere with our ongoing business relationships.

You are hereby notified that if the offending page is not permanently removed from your website within 72 hours, we will seek (and obtain) an injunction to bring the site down permanently. Our subsequent litigation will involve all parties associated with your business and website, including your 'parent corporation' [Name removed].

I will expect a reply to this email in short order which details your course of action. I would also appreciate contact information for your corporate attorneys, or whomever you call your legal representative.

I am not seeking a debate on the finer legal points of this matter, nor will I engage with you in any discussions about this matter as per the advice of counsel. I am only interested in your full and immediate compliance with this cease and desist demand, or in obtaining full contact information for your legal counsel. The rest, if needed, will be worked out in a court of law.

Best regards, and have a great day.

[approaching company name removed]

Installing GoDaddy Cert for Ahsay OBS

2007-12-17T22:38:00.000-08:00

Installing your SSL Certificate on a Tomcat server
How to install your Go Daddy SSL Digital Certificate for Ahsay OBS

Save your ssl certificate files from the file received from Go Daddy. The four certificates you downloaded must be installed to your keystore in the correct order for your Go Daddy certificate to be trusted. If the certificates are not installed in the correct order, then the certificate will not authenticate properly. Use keytool to install all four, as follows:

1) Install the Root Certificate file. Type the following command to install the certificate file:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias root -file valicert_class2_root.crt -keystore your_domain.key

** Note: Choose 'Yes' if you get prompted with a message that says"Certificate already exists in systemwide CA keystore under alias Do you still want to add it to your own keystore?
[no]:"

2) Install the Cross Intermediate Certificate file:Type the following command to install the certificate file:keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias cross -file gd_cross_intermediate.crt-keystore your_domain.key

3) Install the Intermediate Certificate file:Type the following command to install the certificate file:keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias inter -file gd_intermediate.crt -keystore your_domain.key

4) Install the Primary Certificate file. Type the following command to install the certificate file:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias tomcat -file your_domain_name.crt -keystore your_domain.key

You will be prompted for the password, which you chose when generating yourCSR. It will ask if you want to trust the certificate. Choose y or yes.

Go back to Ahsay Admin. Guide for verification steps.

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2007-08-27T12:16:00.000-07:00

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