Search results for: “backup”

  • You did do that backup…. didn't you?

    It seems just a few weeks ago that I posted about making regular backups of your computer. That’s because it was just a few weeks ago! Which makes me wonder whether the server at my office read the post too, and decided to test me. As well as regular backups the server has two hard…

  • Building a low power server

    Note to future me: The reason the new server HDD would not sleep is because ext4lazyinit writes inodes slowly on new disks in the background, so the disks were immediately woken even if forced to sleep. Build a low power server… It will be easy, says me… Replace our 10 year old Atom C2750 running…

  • Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month

    plus call costs of about 1p/minute Short version: Get SIP trunks from Dial9.co.uk**, get a small Virtual Machine running at DigitalOcean*, install IncrediblePBX, connect to your own phones. Where we start from: BT Openreach are turning off analog copper phone lines and moving everyone to an all IP (Internet Protocol) system. It’s called SOGeA (Single…