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Failing Drive FreeNAS 9.3

Posted on 2015/05/132025/06/24 by nullgenome

This morning I received an email warning that one of my drives is problematic: Device: /dev/ada9, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors So checking the device from the box it doesn’t look goo... Read More

Moved to my own server!

Posted on 2015/04/102025/06/24 by nullgenome

I’ve created a small Digital Ocean Droplet using their pre-built WordPress application image and now that DNS has fully propagated my blog is up and running. I’ve moved from a hosting prov... Read More

FreeNAS and Crashplan

Posted on 2015/03/212025/06/24 by nullgenome

Lots of instructions out there but this is what I needed to do to get it working with FreeNAS 9.3 and Crashplan 3.6.3_1 add tunable: variable = linux_load value = YES type = loader reboot install cras... Read More

Home NAS – FreeNAS

Posted on 2015/03/192025/06/24 by nullgenome

At the moment I use a 4 bay Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2 with four 2GB disks in their X-RAID2 setup. It’s basically RAID 5 now but it auto expands as you add disks or swap disks for larger capacity. ... Read More

Python script to change Cleversafe account passwords

Posted on 2015/03/192025/06/24 by nullgenome

Update! I’ve added some pauses between the ssh commands as the script was working faster than the devices, and hopefully made the comments better. This is a simple script to change the pa... Read More

Finding damaged object paths in Panasas

Posted on 2015/03/022025/06/24 by nullgenome

Sometimes the path isn’t known for a damaged file. Use the following Panasas pages here and here for more info (login required). In short: [pancli] volume damage list <vol name> Output ret... Read More

Monitoring Panasas with Opennms

Posted on 2015/02/102025/06/24 by nullgenome

System Summary The Panasas cluster version I’m using is 5.5.1-1098440.68. The Opennms version I’m using is 1.12.9 running on RHEL 6.3. I’ve installed: net-snmp-utils-5.5-41.el6.x... Read More

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup – free up C: drive part 2

Posted on 2015/01/042025/06/24 by nullgenome

Even after junction points my C: drive can still fill up, what with??? Using the great WinDirStat I was still none the wiser. It turns out the WinDirStat doesn’t see the space taken up with syst... Read More

Hopefully back

Posted on 2014/12/022025/06/24 by nullgenome

So last couple of months have been manic, we’ve pretty much finished our data centre migrations, I went to the Elite Dangerous Premier event with my son and we’ve had an ill family! Though... Read More

Crypto Currency wallets and a small C:

Posted on 2014/09/222025/06/24 by nullgenome

I have a number of Crypto Currency Wallets that also fill up my C: drive as they default to my user profile directory structure too. These can be redirected to another area a bit easier than a junctio... Read More

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