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Author Archives: michaelf
BURP
While reading my rss feeds, I saw someone mentioned BURP – Backup and Restore Program for linux. I am going to make the time to check it out, as it to run in phases similar to what CommVault Simpana does. … Continue reading
LPI Level 2 Exam 201 passed
I sat my LPI Level 2 Exam 201 today and passed. Now all I need to do is tackle Exam 202 and I will get my LPIC-2 certification. It’s certainly on the agenda to complete, will start reading the next … Continue reading
Simpana 9.0 SP5a is available
Simpana 9.0 SP5a is available on CommVault’s Maintenance Advantage portal.
OMG Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity
What on earth was Ubuntu thinking when it introduced Unity. I dislike it a lot. Infact I heard today they dropped the development team working on Kubuntu too. What on earth is going on.
Windows System State backup via Simpana 9.0 CentOS/RHEL 6.2 MediaAgent
If you run Simpana 9.0 and have some issues backing up Windows System State via CentOS/RHEL 6.2 MediaAgents, don’t fear SP5a will fix some quirks. I had an issue matching the above and seems it will be resolved in SP5a … Continue reading
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Tagged 6.2, CentOS, Commvault, MediaAgent, RHEL, Simpana 9.0
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NetworkManager on CentOS 6.2
Seems NetworkManager is driving everyone bonkers still and not just me. I did a GUI install and disabled the use of NetworkManager yet the stupid thing still seems to blow away my resolv.conf and better still not populated it even … Continue reading
Ubuntu 11.10 iscsi setup
If you need to setup Ubuntu 11.10 host as an iscsi client, check out the documentation here on how to do it. All very easy to perform. Great to see some excellent documentation from the Ubuntu documentation teams.
Router issues sorted
After playing around with the Billion 7800NL I managed to sort out something that solved my problem. It appears the default setup doesn’t include any sort of QoS, so I played around and managed to create some rules which see … Continue reading
Internet Routers
It would appear our household really hammers the router, in fact so badly it doesn’t seem to cope after a few days. I’ve got an old Pentium 4 here, so after running up pfsense on it for a 2nd time, … Continue reading
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Synology DS109+
So far I am very impressed with the Synology DS109+ that I purchased. It’s currently running with a 2Tb WD Green drive. Seems to do exactly what it was advertised to do too.
