Last time I posted about my experience replacing a drive in an array created with Veritas Volume Manager. That was a RAID 0 array that had lost its data immediately when the drive died, so I didn’t worry about saving the data when rebuilding it. This time I was rebuilding a RAID 1 [...]
On one of my Solaris 9 servers, I lost a hard drive on a large array that had been built with no redundancy. RAID 0 is a tempting option for some admins trying to get the most space that they can out of the capacity they have, but it is almost always the wrong [...]
If you want to extract the files from an rpm, it’s really easy. I needed to use this recently when I was going to install a printer driver in UNIX. The manufacturer had a linux rpm available for download, but I didn’t need the whole thing, just the PPD file. So, I [...]
I haven’t posted for awhile because I have been super busy. I don’t think I have had a chance to post anything since it was announced that the company I work for was being bought out in the beginning of May. That sale has now gone through earlier this week, but the workload [...]
I read this post by Matt Cutts awhile back (I recommend subscribing to his blog, some useful stuff there) and now that my blog is getting to the point where people are commenting on my posts and I am commenting back, it made sense to implement this on my blog. Going through his instructions [...]
