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Moving a SVN Server from Windows Home Server to Ubuntu – Part II: Moving the Repository

Once the subversion software has been installed (see previous post) it is not time to move at least one of my existing repositories to the new environment to test my processes. First, we take a Backup… The process I have … Continue reading

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Moving a SVN Server from Windows Home Server to Ubuntu – Part I: Installation

Luckily, these days you can see trouble coming – if you pay attention. And you can prepare – if you care. I am running a Windows Home Server installation for many years now. It is placed on An Acer H340 … 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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