diff --git a/utils/build-static-symbols.tcl b/utils/build-static-symbols.tcl
deleted file mode 100644
index e634cbe0..00000000
--- a/utils/build-static-symbols.tcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# Build a symbol table for static symbols of redis.c
-# Useful to get stack traces on segfault without a debugger. See redis.c
-# for more information.
-#
-# Copyright(C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo, under the BSD license.
-
-set fd [open redis.c]
-set symlist {}
-while {[gets $fd line] != -1} {
-    if {[regexp {^static +[A-z0-9]+[ *]+([A-z0-9]*)\(} $line - sym]} {
-        lappend symlist $sym
-    }
-}
-set symlist [lsort -unique $symlist]
-puts "static struct redisFunctionSym symsTable\[\] = {"
-foreach sym $symlist {
-    puts "{\"$sym\",(unsigned long)$sym},"
-}
-puts "{NULL,0}"
-puts "};"
-
-close $fd
diff --git a/utils/redis-copy.rb b/utils/redis-copy.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index d892e377..00000000
--- a/utils/redis-copy.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-# redis-copy.rb - Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Salvatore Sanfilippo
-# BSD license, See the COPYING file for more information.
-#
-# Copy the whole dataset from one Redis instance to another one
-#
-# WARNING: currently hashes and sorted sets are not supported! This
-#          program should be updated.
-
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'redis'
-require 'digest/sha1'
-
-def redisCopy(opts={})
-    sha1=""
-    src = Redis.new(:host => opts[:srchost], :port => opts[:srcport])
-    dst = Redis.new(:host => opts[:dsthost], :port => opts[:dstport])
-    puts "Loading key names..."
-    keys = src.keys('*')
-    puts "Copying #{keys.length} keys..."
-    c = 0
-    keys.each{|k|
-        vtype = src.type?(k)
-        ttl = src.ttl(k).to_i if vtype != "none"
-
-        if vtype == "string"
-            dst[k] = src[k]
-        elsif vtype == "list"
-            list = src.lrange(k,0,-1)
-            if list.length == 0
-                # Empty list special case
-                dst.lpush(k,"")
-                dst.lpop(k)
-            else
-                list.each{|ele|
-                    dst.rpush(k,ele)
-                }
-            end
-        elsif vtype == "set"
-            set = src.smembers(k)
-            if set.length == 0
-                # Empty set special case
-                dst.sadd(k,"")
-                dst.srem(k,"")
-            else
-                set.each{|ele|
-                    dst.sadd(k,ele)
-                }
-            end
-        elsif vtype == "none"
-            puts "WARNING: key '#{k}' was removed in the meanwhile."
-        end
-
-        # Handle keys with an expire time set
-        if ttl != -1 and vtype != "none"
-            dst.expire(k,ttl)
-        end
-
-        c = c+1
-        if (c % 1000) == 0
-            puts "#{c}/#{keys.length} completed"
-        end
-    }
-    puts "DONE!"
-end
-
-if ARGV.length != 4
-    puts "Usage: redis-copy.rb <srchost> <srcport> <dsthost> <dstport>"
-    exit 1
-end
-puts "WARNING: it's up to you to FLUSHDB the destination host before to continue, press any key when ready."
-STDIN.gets
-srchost = ARGV[0]
-srcport = ARGV[1]
-dsthost = ARGV[2]
-dstport = ARGV[3]
-puts "Copying #{srchost}:#{srcport} into #{dsthost}:#{dstport}"
-redisCopy(:srchost => srchost, :srcport => srcport.to_i,
-          :dsthost => dsthost, :dstport => dstport.to_i)
diff --git a/utils/redis-sha1.rb b/utils/redis-sha1.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 24498e25..00000000
--- a/utils/redis-sha1.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# redis-sha1.rb - Copyright (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo
-# BSD license, See the COPYING file for more information.
-#
-# Performs the SHA1 sum of the whole datset.
-# This is useful to spot bugs in persistence related code and to make sure
-# Slaves and Masters are in SYNC.
-#
-# If you hack this code make sure to sort keys and set elements as this are
-# unsorted elements. Otherwise the sum may differ with equal dataset.
-
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'redis'
-require 'digest/sha1'
-
-def redisSha1(opts={})
-    sha1=""
-    r = Redis.new(opts)
-    r.keys('*').sort.each{|k|
-        vtype = r.type?(k)
-        if vtype == "string"
-            len = 1
-            sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+k)
-            sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+r.get(k))
-        elsif vtype == "list"
-            len = r.llen(k)
-            if len != 0
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+k)
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+r.list_range(k,0,-1).join("\x01"))
-            end
-        elsif vtype == "set"
-            len = r.scard(k)
-            if len != 0
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+k)
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+r.set_members(k).to_a.sort.join("\x02"))
-            end
-        elsif vtype == "zset"
-            len = r.zcard(k)
-            if len != 0
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+k)
-                sha1 = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sha1+r.zrange(k,0,-1).join("\x01"))
-            end
-        end
-        # puts "#{k} => #{sha1}" if len != 0
-    }
-    sha1
-end
-
-host = ARGV[0] || "127.0.0.1"
-port = ARGV[1] || "6379"
-db = ARGV[2] || "0"
-puts "Performing SHA1 of Redis server #{host} #{port} DB: #{db}"
-p "Dataset SHA1: #{redisSha1(:host => host, :port => port.to_i, :db => db)}"