Backup failures on small servers

In light of a catastrophic data loss @ T-Mobile, I went to verify backup setups I am responsible of and found out that one of them wasn't working as expected. Damn it. That's what happens when you have very little resources for a custom solution.

Hudson, maven and git on eapps.com VPS

VPS hosting from eapps.com is a reasonable compromise between cost and hosting service quality. I use it to host a hudson CI server.

This entry explains how I set it up up to a point where I can build using maven a java project hosted on a ssh protected git repository (on github). I will not go into the hudson specific stuff, the hudson wiki is usually complete & well worded. But I will spend more time on the OS specific stuff such as daemon configuration, ssh specifics, etc...