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This is a sysadmin how-to for backing up JasperReports Server (formerly JasperServer) and it's database (MySQL only for now). I wrote a fairly robust script to achieve this task. It will read the database configuration from your default_master.properties file, work with several versions of JasperServer, delete old backups, write to the syslog and export the repository contents to file. First drop my backup script into your \buildomatic folder if you're using 4.0 and abovie, 3.7 and below put in your /scripts folder. Once the script is in place edit the variables at the top of the script: This is to signify that you're using JasperServer 3.7.1 and below: IS_PRE_4=false This is a name for the product: PRODUCT_NAME="JRS-4.0-Pro" This is where backups will be stored: BACKUP_DEST="/home/ernesto/Dropbox/Backups" This will delete old backups if set to true DELETE_OLD=true How many days to keep old backups DAYS=120 Now add it to your cr...

Trying to get my old Blackberry to stream from my mpd server, it turns out the built in http stream output is not compiled with lame encoder (mp3) support. Here are some instructions on building the source package with the lame encoder options compiled in for Debian Squeeze (6.0) (as root) Install libmp3lame0 and lame from http://debian-multimedia.org/ cd /tmp/ Get the build dependencies for mpd: apt-get build-dep mpd Get the mpd source package: apt-get source mpd  cd mpd-0.15.12 (your version may differ) Edit the file debian/rules and remove --disable-lame Build the binary: ./debian/rules binary Build the .deb package: cd ..  dpkg-source -b mpd-0.15.12 Install the package: dpkg -i mpd_0.15.12-1.1_amd64.deb Lock the package in place so that updates won't blow away your change: echo mpd hold | dpkg --set-selections That's it! Then you can configure an audio output in /etc/mpd.conf: audio_output {         type         ...