Category: NZTekonverse -> Storage
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New bits for “old” computers
As of today the new SSD for the bedroom PC (NUC) and the one for the “server” have arrived. The NUC has now got the SSD installed and Xubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) installed on it and the video clips now being downloaded over the wireless from the mediapc. The difference in sound level is quite notable…
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Linux “server”
So linux PC #3 at my desk is going to become a server of sorts. Backup server for borg is one of the key roles it can do. Another one is Virtualbox server or PC running vboxes natively, depending on how I set it up. Another way of working around disk space limitations on MainPC…
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Linux backup solutions
So since I started to use Linux I have used rsync as a backup system. This has some limitations, and this week I decided to see if there is an actual backup solution. Well it turns out there are a number of FOSS backup packages to choose from. As usual the Gnome one (sbackup) isn’t…
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Xubuntu 17.10 on MainPC
In reference to a post that I have updated a lot of times since first writing it earlier this year, I have addressed the issue of the graphics card by removing the four head card from mainpc and putting in a simple $50 two head card that is supported out of the box by nouveau.…
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Eyefi & FlashAir wireless SD cards for camera
Eyefi is a technology that’s been around for a while, that combines a regular SD memory card with a wireless chipset so that images that are being recorded onto the card by the camera can be transmitted wirelessly to another device. The cards can be purchased mainly on Amazon. The technology has also been licensed…
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MS Smoke and Mirrors over Live Email storage
Microsoft deliberately won’t tell you what the size limit of your Live mailbox is. They sort of imply it’s unlimited. This is a smoke and mirrors game in which they can shift the goalposts any time they like and is similar to how they very quietly announced they were chopping OneDrive storage from 15 GB…
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Linux RAID-1 [9]: Removing an array
The last step having set up a new array is to remove the old one from the computer. This is relatively straightforward. Firstly the array has to be unmounted, which is a simple umount command with the path, in this case umount /oldhome. The next thing is to run a mdadm command to remove the…
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Linux RAID-1 [8]: Setting up the replacement array
As I mentioned last time I have bought the 2 TB disks so that I can have a RAID-1 array in the main computer that is big enough to hold all of my stuff, meaning the second computer (and by extension, its screens and desk) will be effectively redundant. So here I am essentially repeating…
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Linux RAID-1 [7]: Recovery and fault-finding
/dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat Jul 2 04:03:31 2016 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time…
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Linux RAID-1 [6]: Reinstalling with RAID
Well today I had to reinstall Mint on one of my computers, both of which have RAID-1 arrays. This time I installed Mint 18 onto the DB75EN. And of course I wanted to pick up my existing RAID array without having to build it from scratch. Initially I was going to build a test system…