Today I had to get PHP upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2.X on someone else’s server and didn’t have time to screw around. I have a PHP configuration that I’ve used in the past but it frankly can take too long to get set up, if time is of the essence. So here are my “quickie… Continue reading Quickie how-to for getting PHP upgraded on CentOS 5
Month: October 2009
Adventures in home data backups: Part 2 – hacking the La Cie Etherdisk Mini V1
From Part I, I now have a working backup device sitting in the closet, that is running rsync, just waiting to connect to the NAS. Time to hack the Mini. The basic instructions are extremely well-written here. My model is, I think, the Etherdisk Mini V1 and these instructions are for the V2, but for… Continue reading Adventures in home data backups: Part 2 – hacking the La Cie Etherdisk Mini V1
Adventures in home data backups: Part 1 – FreeNAS to the rescue!
I thought I had a pretty good data backup strategy for my home network. I have several PC’s that all access a central NAS as a fileserver (a 250GB La Cie Etherdisk Mini), which is a nice little Linux-based device that has been running like clockwork for years. This was manually backed up, along with… Continue reading Adventures in home data backups: Part 1 – FreeNAS to the rescue!
Using Robocopy to mirror directories
I had to copy the contents of a drive on an XP box to another network drive (which was actually a FreeNAS box) on my LAN yesterday (part of a longer story involving a crashed backup disk – but that’s a tale for another time). It was over my LAN network and involved a zillion… Continue reading Using Robocopy to mirror directories