Monthly Archives: October 2018

Halloween 2018

Posted on October 31, 2018 by larry

Last day of October, feel like its been a month that tested me. Certainly busy, got a lot to deal with, but also kind of got off track.  November should be renewal time. Not as exited with the future as … Continue reading →

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Need To Watch Myself

Posted on October 30, 2018 by larry

Need to be careful, don’t want all the weight loss to be for nothing. My workouts have been sacrificed as I work on my network upgrades. As I post I am getting another domain controller going and testing unencrypted  backups … Continue reading →

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Upgrade Going Full Steam

Posted on October 29, 2018 by larry

So much to do, so little time. Been giving up working out, (considering PT as my workout) to get network running. Couple things FreeNAS is up, but I keep tinkering cause right now it is the most interesting thing I … Continue reading →

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Went Live With FreeNAS

Posted on October 28, 2018 by larry

Finally went live with FreeNAS.  I got snapshots working and an rsync to another server. The shadow copy of Freenas was interesting. Not only did I have to get snapshots working at the dataset level, but I need to present … Continue reading →

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Daughter Going To State, Aunt is 100

Posted on October 27, 2018 by larry

Big busy day. First up was my daughter who is in Cross Country, she made it to State!!!  I think she was 27th of the first qualifying 35 finishers.  We are headed to Pasco next weekend. Next was my aunt, … Continue reading →

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Backing Up FreeNAS

Posted on October 26, 2018 by larry

Getting close to deploying my FreeNAS server. One of the things I wanted to do was document backups. I classified the different storage locations and came up with a backup methodology. Using a combination of snapshots, rsync and USB backups, … Continue reading →

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PT Working

Posted on October 25, 2018 by larry

Second day at physical therapy, and they worked me a bit. Also told me to maybe hold off running. Got a new hard drive and enclosure for my backup server. I have enough to go live, which will look like … Continue reading →

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More Building

Posted on October 24, 2018 by larry

Figured out how to do a dump a ZFS and restore, now to come up with a script to automate backups.  Also a clear process. Also got the firewall up, it is too loud.  Not going to work. Still no … Continue reading →

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Not Enough Hours

Posted on October 23, 2018 by larry

Spent a bunch of the afternoon and evening working on upgrading my machines. All the DNS servers on my main network are done. Working on VPN and other servers now. Harder ones are coming up. One at a time. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Plex on Windows

Posted on October 22, 2018 by larry

On the desktop, I tend to run Windows and on the Server side, I tend to run Linux. So for the past few months I been running Plex on Linux.  But I read somewhere that plex runs better on Windows. … Continue reading →

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