How to backup with RSYNC and QNAP
Our company recommends QNAP network attached storage (NAS) quite heavily due to how inexpensive the hardware is, feature rich and flexible it is. Recently we have received a request to design and showcase a system for backing up a constantly growing data set. The data in question is a big digital image library that is the livelihood of the business. The files are generated on workstations, and...
Read MoreNew QNAP: 10 drive, quad network
QNAP is the industry leader of inexpensive network attached storage devices. So far all the units have featured a maximum of 8 hard drives and 2 network cards. However this is about to change as QNAP already has units with more hard drives and network cards in development and in limited production runs. So far we know of at least one unit which is a going to feature 10 hard drives and will...
Read MoreQnap firmware 3.5.0 – new features added
QNAP has just released firmware v3.5 for their NAS devices. This new version has introduced some new features as well as improved some of the existing ones. We have deployed v3.5 on several devices installed on a client site in La Jolla, CA while at the same time we are testing its performance on our own test units. New features and improvements which will be important to small businesses are...
Read MoreMissing cores in Windows 7 VM?
A client had recently deployed Windows 7 Professional as a virtual machine running on vSphere Essentials ESXi server. The “Essentials” license allows for up-to 4 virtual CPUs (vCPU) to be assigned to a virtual machine, which is important if your VM needs to do some heavy data crunching. Yet when the client installed Windows 7, they discovered that Windows was only seeing 2 virtual...
Read MoreVeeam- 5 things you need to know
Veeam is an excellent product for backing up large installations of virtual machines running on vMware server platforms. However, while the software looks easy to understand and operate – there are a few things every administrator needs to know in order to make it work well. 1 – Fast storage and network – while Veeam can work over SMB/CIFS, the speed of backups and replication...
Read MoreYour site is sending mail as www-data?
A client has inquired about troubleshooting an Ubuntu development server. They had a web site that had a contact form with all the standard fields – Name, Phone, E-mail address, Subject, Message body yet some of this information would not appear in the resulting e-mail. Instead of a message from “name”+”e-mail” as typed in by the user, it would come in as been sent...
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