New storage needed.
I am getting tired of my linux based setup. It just doesn’t work well enough. The biggest issue I have is that everytime it gets powered down (vacation, storm, etc) and comes back up, it doesn’t quite....
View ArticleResizing a logical volume
I backup my photos from an iMac to a Ubuntu linux box with a simple rsync command. rsync --exclude=".*" -ave ssh /my/masters userId@x.x.x.y:/media/pictures This will copy everything new from...
View ArticleNo room at the inn
I was uploading pictures to my iMac from my camera when I got a warning from Aperture that my computer was running out of space and that if I didn’t do something immediately to advert catastrophe, my...
View ArticleNew Flash and Drives
Not a flash drive. A SB800 flash, and two Western Digital 1TB green drives. These should be arriving today via UPS. I am excited to get the SB800. I have a SB400 right now, but I am looking forward to...
View Article2 Terrabytes of Backup Goodness. Maybe.
It doesn’t do much good to have any amount of backup if you can’t use it. Right now, the NAS, where I intended to put them appears dead. Not sure what happened. I powered down, put the new drives in,...
View ArticleThe NAS is still down
I got my Western Digital green 1TB drives the other day. That didn’t work. I got a new power supply, thinking that the new drives just took more power than the old clunker could muster. No luck. Still...
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Deciding on the NAS Software
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Building a NASSo, I hope you have a box ready, because we are going to install some software today. I had said this was going to be built using Linux, but we...
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Creating LVM Virtual Drives
Now that we have a raid array created, we are going to create some virtual drives. Why virtual drives? Well, we have one large terabyte drive right now, and if we just put folders in there, it can...
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Sent back the ReadyNAS
I am so done with anything to do with hard drives.  I am starting to want to stop doing anything that deals with creating files that take up lots of space and need to be backed up. (ie photography)...
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