Category Archives: Ubuntu

Mounting iSCSI LUNs via Ubuntu

One of the challenges we faced during the recovery of our QNAP Data was the ability to mount the “rescued” LUN files and access their data. The system to do this is an Ubuntu 13.04 environment with open-iscsi and iscsitarget … Continue reading

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QNAP LUN Recovery – Preparing to recover VMWare ESX Datastores

When all things break, you are sometimes left with just your latest backup (hopefully) and the need to get to some files. In this case, the problem was a broken QNAP NAS where we recovered some LUN RAW-Device files from. … Continue reading

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Linux Discovery – using Ubuntu as iSCSI Target Server

For reasons I’ll explain later I had to dive a bit into iSCSI and Ubuntu – the background is a desaster recovery for a crashed QNAP Device but the only significant relation is that that crashed box had been used … Continue reading

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Linux Discovery – Unity Desktop

Once Ubuntu is installed, I can start the system, log in and find myself on a Desktop. The times when Linux was a shell-oriented system are long gone – like Windows is no longer living on a DOS Prompt. Although … Continue reading

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Linux Discovery – Ubuntu

I have been a Windows guy for years (actually, I have been an MS-DOS guy before Windows was around) – and I never really looked in to Linux so far, mostly because I could not see a reason to exchange … Continue reading

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