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Reverse proxying with FreeBSD

Posted on July 10, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

Being the geek I am, I have a nasty habbit of setting something up and then thinking “OK, so it runs, but what would happen if…“, and I then go on to think about the most unlikely, impossible, worse-case senario and try to figure a way around it. The latest case of this occured 2 […]

Moving a Linux install

Posted on July 3, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

Continuing with the theme of broken backup servers (oh boy am I having fun this week) I decided it may be worth giving a short explanation of how to clone or move a Linux install from one hard drive to another (note I’m not talking about two completely identical machines. If this were the case, […]

Linux and large hard drives

Posted on June 30, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

I just finished rebuilding the backup server, and I discovered something new about Linux which I didn’t know (although I did assume it was possible). I’d tried googling for the answer to this question without avail, so I’ve blogged it here to hopefully answer the question for someone else in my same situation. The problem […]

Autopsy

Posted on June 29, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

I just had the enjoyment of performing an autopsy on our backup server, arguably the most important machine on the network, responsible for the retreival and archiving of the filesystems from all the other servers. As I opened the case it was immediately obvious what had happened, an intruder had broken in and hacked the […]

Vista and large networks

Posted on May 1, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

Yesterday I had the laughs of all laughs. As anyone who knows me personally will know, I’ve recently been “trying out” Microsoft Windows Vista (yes, that you did read that correctly.) I’d rather be openminded than closed, primarily because I hate it when people tell me how rubbish non-Microsoft software is when they’ve never even […]

MX backup with Courier-MTA

Posted on April 14, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

After having had to take down hedwig a fair few hours over the last week (if you didn’t know, Debian has made a new stable release, and amazingly there’s no pigs flying!) while it under went some fairly heavy software updates. During this time Courier, the MTA we use was back logged with a fair […]