Category: Storage
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Bare-Metal Backups That Actually Work: Deploying UrBackup for Windows and Linux Fleets
How I deployed UrBackup on Docker with a dedicated 500GB storage volume, configured client discovery across VLANs, and automated block-level image backups with instant VHD mounting.
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The Chaos Drill: How I Rebuilt a Production Hypervisor from Bare Metal in 28 Minutes
How I conducted a live disaster recovery drill, wiping a production hypervisor host and restoring full compute and VMs in 28 minutes using iVentoy PXE and automated storage…
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Ditching Google Photos: Tuning Immich on Docker with Vector Search & Facial Recognition
How I migrated tens of thousands of family and project photos away from cloud subscriptions to self-hosted Immich on Docker, tuned PostgreSQL pgvector and Valkey, and conquered CPU…
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Setting Up Multi-Path iSCSI with My EqualLogic SAN and XCP-ng
Running single-link iSCSI in a virtualization lab is asking for trouble. Pull the wrong patch cable, reboot a switch, or have a NIC glitch out, and your hypervisor…
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Infrastructure Updates: TrueNAS, Signal Bot, and VoIP
Recent Infrastructure Deployments Here is a summary of the latest services and improvements added to the lab environment: 1. TrueNAS Storage Pool A new TrueNAS SCALE virtual machine…