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Kelburn / Northand
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Rare BMW LX M spotted in Wellington!
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Fear not!
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Try again later — much later
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New tech; same old content
This post ensures this blog does not go longer than 5 years without something to say.
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Corrupted Time Machine backups; zfs to the rescue
Since upgrading to OS X Lion, I’ve been getting corrupted Time Machine backups now and again, where OS X declares it must erase the entire backup volume and start again. Apparently this is not uncommon. Erasing the backup volume means the entire backup history is lost, which is not nice at all.
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Top o' the charts
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Felled By Bureaucracy
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Wish I Weren't Here
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Salty snapper
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Things that go bump in the night
Last night around 2:10am Minette and I were awakened by a big shake of the whole house. “Earthquake!” we said simultaneously. It was just one shock wave, quite strong but orderly. Thankfully the children slept through it. It’s not uncommon to hear of analogies between Wellington and San Francisco, what with all the steep hills and large bay. Sitting on top of a major fault system is another similarity.
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Refinement of automount script for LUKS encrypted disk image
In my previous post I showed an automount script for mounting a LUKS encrypted disk image as a loop device. The script was designed to always mount the same loop device, e.g.
/dev/loop0. This prevented it from being able to mount multiple disk images, so with some tweaks I refined the script to use any available loop device and thus support multiple disk images. -
Configuring automount for LUKS encrypted disk image on SMB share
In my previous post, I detailed how I set up an LUKS-encrypted filesystem on a loop device (a.k.a. sparse disk image file). To make automated backups easier and not have to add commands in my backup script to handle the mounting and unmounting of the disk image, I set up
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Encrypted Backup of RHEL 5 system to SMB network share
I purchased the LaCie NAS for backups of the various computers running around at home: a Mac desktop, a Mac laptop, and a Linux server. For the Macs they can just use Time Machine to backup to the NAS, which broadcasts itself as a Time Machine-capable server. For the Linux server, however, it's not so simple.
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Taming the LaCie 2big Network NAS
A little while ago I bought a LaCie 2big Network server to use for backups and storage. The drive is simple to use, but lacks the ability for the internal hard drives to "sleep" -- that is, spin down when not in use after a period of time. That's pretty annoying because the drive makes noise and wastes power while running, keeping the disks spinning. I decided I had to figure out a way to tame this little server.
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Up, up and away!
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Carrots. Lots of tiny carrots.
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Move over, baby Mozart
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Here we go again...
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m^2 / 2008
m^2 gets a makeover.
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