Category: NZTekonverse -> Storage
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General computing update – week 34, 2020.
Since writing early July about about the need to replace the disks in mainpc I have finally progressed towards this stage by purchasing the first of two disks. As noted in the earlier post, this was prompted by an I/O failure of one of the disks that resulted in it dropping out of the RAID…
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General update week 30, 2020
I wrote about a lot of fun getting a system to work with static IP addressing (it is running Debian 10 with LXQt). Since it was able to be made to statically configure its IP with no issues, I configured the other Debian10-LXQt system with a static configuration also. The second computer only has one…
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Rsync Backup System [6]: Latest Progress / Using The Rsync Daemon
Because of issues with Rsync over ssh I am looking into using the Rsync daemon instead. The commentary on that is below. Until I can get that working properly I am backing up each computer individually using its own removable drive bay. This can be achieved by changing the ownership of the backup folder on…
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Rsync Backup System [5]: Ongoing Backup Journey
Since writing the first four articles on this topic, I have not yet figured out how to implement an incremental backup strategy, and so I am still doing only the full backup every few months. Hence right now I am doing my first full backup of mainpc for three months. The first issue that has…
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Debugging Linux startup issues with JournalCtl
My computers running Linux are very reliable but every so often a spanner will be thrown in the works and the computer will refuse to come up beyond a command prompt. When this happens you have to look at the logs to try to work out what is happening in the system and how to…