by Dean | Nov 8, 2013 | General IT, IT, Virtualisation
After recently cloning a Hyper V machine after another RAID issue I was presented with an issue where none of the guest would start after a reboot. This was strange as before the clone the machines started and ran fine. When attempting to start one of the guests I was...
by Dean | Nov 1, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Just a quick note about this article. While writing this article I experienced an internet outage for a little over 12 hours. Imagine the irony. Disaster 1: Loss of internet This is probably one of the most likely issues to occur this day and age. Give that the...
by Dean | Oct 30, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Disaster recovery in IT is always one of those last minute things that never really gets enough attention. That is until it is to late and you are in the middle of a disaster. So why is this the case? Why do we constantly ignore the very real threat that...
by Dean | Oct 12, 2013 | Backup, IT
Had a lot of issues with a virus called CryptoLocker. A scary piece of work. Usually it is only discovered because staff start to find that files are full or rubbish which is because the virus has encrypted the files. The virus remains silent until its job of...
by Dean | Oct 9, 2013 | General IT, Home Media, IT, Tutorial
Now that we have what we want all designed and ready to install we can start the installation of the back end software. Most of the front ends will just work once the server is setup correctly. Software download First things first is to get the software you need...