by Dean | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Jun 18, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that all the heavy lifting part of this is done. I wanted to write down a few little tips and points to do with this. Over all I couldn’t be happier with the way it works and how well it handles what I have thrown at it. But like with all IT (and especially...
by Dean | Jun 12, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Virtualisation
Now that we have two machines that are identical (With the exception of IP and host name.) The next step is to download, install and configure DRBD. To achieve this I used a few posts and combined them into the setup that I wanted to setup. Some of the posts include...
by Dean | Jun 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
At first I thought this was going to be a fairly easy and straight forward setup. I figured it would be install FreeNAS or Ubuntu and bam we will be away. What has ended up happening was a configuration of DRBD, Heatbeat and other HA utilities to get it up and running...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
