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Backup of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

It’s always a good idea to backup your work to provide you a way to recovery if things go wrong with your environment. Running an home lab I have cause my own share of issues many of times which had forced me to reinstall and configure my vCenter environment. Moving forward I will be taking advantage […]

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CrashPlan – “Adopt” Option Disappeared

Today I found myself updating CrashPlan on my headless server and client computers. In doing so I needed to Uninstall CrashPlan to install the latest release. I found after this I needed to adopt the backup however I someone lost the option to do so. The following steps need to be done via the connected […]

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Using DD for disk cloning

Using one of the built in commands in Linux I decided to clone a drive. Unlike in Windows this does not require the use or purchase of a tool or software. The command dd is used to make a block-level copy of the hard drive. The command can be used to clone one drive to another […]

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Windows 8 file history feature

File history is a new way to back up your files and it keeps a chronological history of the files in your document libraries. All you need to do is activate and turn it on. Steps to enable this feature: From Start Screen, type “File History”, click on settings in right pane, click on File […]

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Personal Technical

Saving Private RAID ‘en

Over a week now I have been having serious performance issues with my private SAN (I am using OpenMediaVault) here at home. I noticed the issues and reviewed everything from services to software recently updated. Later to discover one of my HDD (Hard Disk Drives) in my RAID set were having issues The symptoms were that all […]

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Crashplan, I choose you

Back at home I use Open Media Vault as my NAS (Network Attached Storage solution to store and serve up my media and documents to my computers and devices. Open Media Vault (OMV) gives me all the things I need with one single exception; that’s backups. So at home I backup to USB disks, but what if there was […]