A few days ago I decided to to give Owncloud a try to see what it's like, but the installation proved to be a little longer than I expected specially since I didn't want to compromise and use Apache or Nginx but my personal favorite Hiawatha.

These are the steps …

Hi everyone,

So in my last post, I showed how we can install and use Percona Xtrabackup on FreeBSD 8.2 to take and restore database backups.

But what if you want files to be saved directly to a compressed tarball ?

Read On..

Prerequisites:

• MySQL 5.5 must be installed …

This is how I got Percona to work on FreeBSD 8.2 - kinda bumpy but looks like it works!

Prerequisites:

• MySQL 5.5 must be installed
• Also, the MySQL configuration file must be in place under /usr/local/etc/my.cnf as in the instructions above as Xtrabackup expectes to …