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Mozy Issues?
21.Aug.07 | 7 Comments
I’ve been using Mozy at home for quite some time now. Generally been quite pleased with it. (that’s an affiliate link, btw)
I just noticed that none of my machines have had a successful backup for about a week now. Always end up with a “ConnectionError3.” Rebooted machines, power-cycled my firewall/router and disabled software firewalls. [...]
Things I Wish I’d Thought of Regarding Online Backups
23.Jul.07 | 10 Comments
Thinking about going to online backups for your home or office? I’ve been a Mozy user since last August and recently gained a lot more (unplanned) experience with the MozyPro service as well.
What follows are some things to consider. While all my experience is via the two Mozy services — and I’ve generally been [...]
Panic, Chaos, Doom
21.Jul.07 | 12 Comments
Let me try to lay out this series of events that has culminated in way too much time at the office this weekend.
It all began…
Six months ago I converted a development application server (aka “the vault”) to a VMware virtual machine hosted on our dev server. Worked great that way and reduced the heat load [...]
System Admin Appreciation Day
20.Jul.07 | 2 Comments
Are you ready for the annual SysAdmin Day? It’ll be next Friday, so plan your gift shopping accordingly. Would it be wrong to send that link to the corporate “all employees” distribution list?
Posting will be light this weekend — one of our main dev servers decided to consume its RAID 5 array. Most of it [...]
Hardware Failure
07.Jul.07 | 5 Comments
Remember that USB drive I mentioned in last night’s post about backups?
It died!
