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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 09 September 2015

Arguably, one of the more important things you need to do with your server is back it up; if you have a recent backup, you can rebuild your server, no problem. But if you do NOT have any backups (which is surprisingly common), you're screwed... The rebuild will HAVE to be from scratch, and if you had any custom scripts or configurations there, here's to hoping you remember what they were. Most of the time, this is next to impossible to accomplish without extensive documentation on the rebuild process. While there are all kinds of products and applications that can accomplish this, there are some built-in Linux tools that can accomplish a backup quite easily. Here, we'll go over the general process of backing up a Linux system.

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 25 February 2015

One of the most common tasks I have to do with Technology is SSHing to various devices. Granted, you could just use the Linux Command line ssh command, you have to remember all the details like the IP and user name ande password... While all good things to know and remember, it can become rather tedious when you have to do the same tasks again and again and again...

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 02 September 2015

I have recently had an opportunity to work on a very strang issue... My customer was able to transfer small files through a VPN connection, but not large ones. One of the challenges we faced in this was how to get files of a specific file size, to test the limits of that connection. In the end, while a simple command, it took me a little while to figure it out, but I eventually settled on a few variations of a command to get my file sizes.

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 27 January 2015

In an effort to figure out what to do with this HDD sitting on my desk, I hassled just about everyone at my work whose technical skills and knowledge I trust how to take the next step in this. While I had a few ideas in mind, I needed some sounding boards to flesh out some ideas. Despite working for a very high-end network security company, there was little 'extra' info that was presented to me.

To be purely honest, I was rather disappointed with the suggestions that were offered. I kindbof expected a little more, or maybe that just the level I'm working at... But the one thing that was od most value in these interactions was that a coworker lent me an IDE to USB adapter. Awesome!

But how to mount and use?...