Kategori: Sysadmin

  • Changing partitions and zfs disklayout without downtime?

    When setting up my SSD zpool – which I basically wanted because I wanted *no* constant disk-access to my disk-based zpool, I was lazy. Laziness almost never pays off. Before starting with ZFS, I had almost my full SSD as an LVM physical volume (except the bootdisk). Then, I added my external disk cabinet and…

  • Keeper Password Manager – a small technical review

    Last year, the company I work for signed up for Keeper Enterprise. A good password manager was something I’d been vouching for at work for a while, for a few reasons: Security policies often dictate practises that simply isn’t feasible to follow. Even though sharing passwords is discouraged, sometimes it just can’t be helped. There…

  • Moro med backup!

    I noen år nå har jeg kjørt duplicity backup både på servesystemer og klienter. Dette har virket bra, men har det samme problemet som all annen inkrementell filbackup: Før eller siden må du ta ny full backup for at det ikke skal bli for tungt å kjøre restore. Med mye data trenger du da relativt…