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1 Day Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Help buying a server in Server Platforms

+1. I have (3) of these Sandy Bridge Celeron 847 boards at home. They all work great, where inexpensive, and use very little power. I use (2) of...

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1 Day Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Verifying data vs backup with rsync after mdadm crisis in Server Platforms

Yes you are. I'm glad your data is all intact :) Congratulations on have a good, functioning backup system in place.

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2 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Server storage capacity in Server Platforms

Yes, this is what I was talking about. This would allow you to expand your storage by pooling it. AUFS provides the same concept and runs in kernel...

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3 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Verifying data vs backup with rsync after mdadm crisis in Server Platforms

Rsync is the correct tool for this job, and using the trailing slashes on each path is the way you would want to run this sync action. Here's an...

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3 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread big data in Server Platforms

Personally, I'd use Ceph or Gluster.

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4 Days Ago

haqking started a thread Javapocalypse in The Cafe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E3418SeWZfQ#!

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4 Days Ago

haqking started a thread UFO Disclosure in The Cafe

Couldnt find this already posted but probably has been.Great topic for the cafe ;-)Hon. Paul Hellyer - Minister of National DefenseTestified knowing...

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5 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread [Solved] Mdadm problem, need advice on sleeping the assemble or not running at boot? in Server Platforms

+1 this will work. Then, you could assemble the array later by adding an mdadm --assemble --scan line to /etc/rc.local. This will run after all...

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5 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Server storage capacity in Server Platforms

Thanks for the vote of confidence :) I used have a a lot more free time on my hands. Lately, life and work have had me very busy, so I find very...

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5 Days Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Server storage capacity in Server Platforms

Another idea that would keep everything on server "A". Do you have any PCIe ports left on the on board that you could use an external SFF-8088 cable...

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6 Days Ago

haqking replied to a thread How does Richard Stallman browse the internet? in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

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1 Week Ago

amjjawad replied to a thread Can't Transition to Lubuntu Because of Keyboard Shortcut Issues in Absolute Beginners Section

Hello and Welcome to Ubuntu Forums, I'd like to introduce myself - please check my signature :) May I humbly request from you to read a link?...

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2 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Problem with scp in Server Platforms

By default, the way you scp'd that zipfile would have put the files in the admin user's home directory (likely /home/administrator) not in /var/www. ...

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2 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Server upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 and now RAID1 disk reads are slow in Server Platforms

Have you tried to actually write and read some test data to the disk to see real read and write speeds on the box? # Write Speeds dd...

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2 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread fdisk does not create a partition of an exact size for using it in Raid, sfdisk does in Server Platforms

I cover partitioning in my SnapRAID tutorial. The optimal setting will properly align the partition to your disk's geometry. And, it also has a...

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2 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread Networking Breaks when setting a static IP in Server Platforms

The DNS nameserver portion of that tutorial needs to be updated for your newer version of Ubuntu. Your static ip setup should go something like this...

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2 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread fdisk does not create a partition of an exact size for using it in Raid, sfdisk does in Server Platforms

I use parted to make my original partitions, then I use sgdisk to make exact duplicates of the partitioning to my other array members. You can...

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3 Weeks Ago

rubylaser replied to a thread running under hyper-v in Server Platforms

Was this i new install or a migrated VM? I ask, because you shouldn't have been able to install without internet, and if it was a migration, it's...

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