Dev stuff from Juanga Covas

Juan Gabriel Covas

I'm a 42 yo old school programmer and team lead. Helped to build an enterprise, mission critical software that's ranked 4 out of 5 stars from its users 😮 Now, I think that's something!

A guide using sshfs for Relax and Recover (ReaR): bare-metal server backup & restore (or migrate) for Linux

Sep 10, 2021 12 min read 832 views

Until I discovered this open source tool Relax and Recover, I wished I could do snapshots of some bare-metal dedicated servers, like if they're VMs, but they're not... So, no virtualization, no easy snapshots. And therefore no easy way to fully recov...

A guide using sshfs for Relax and Recover (ReaR): bare-metal server backup & restore (or migrate) for Linux

Building HAProxy from sources for performance, latest 2.4 under RHEL / CentOS 7

Aug 25, 2021 8 min read 115 views

This article summarizes my adventures on installing HAProxy 2.4 which is the latest LTS version as of 2021. I wanted to upgrade an old 2.0.x LTS, compiled from sources, under CentOS 7. So, we're going to build HAProxy ourselves, as it should be done...

Building HAProxy from sources for performance, latest 2.4 under RHEL / CentOS 7