This is tested on Debian Squeeze, but should work on most Debian derived distributions and on other Linux distributions with small changes. I have written almost the same guide some years ago, but I wanted to add an extra disk to my QNAP NAS and decided to write it down again. Requirements; 2 identical disks [...]
My home dsl router broke yesterday, so I had to figure out how to get online again. Luckily I have my free-data 3g modem (from 3.dk), which works great from Ubuntu (network-manager). This is great for one computer at a time, but not for my entire home network. I searched and found exactly what I [...]
On my server i have several Linux Vservers running. This works really well, but i am missing some sort of fail-over. I have read articles about drdb8 and active-passive setups, but I don’t want something to complicated. To solve my problem, I have written a small script to rsync a vserver remotely. The script will be [...]