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Data synchronisation using Unison

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with backups

Some time ago I found a small utility called unison. I used it for some time to sync my homedir on a Linux box to my Windows laptop, but later decided to go with the Winows built-in 'Offline files' thingie (bad idea, don't do it).

What is Unison?

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Rather busy but...

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in plan • Tagged with plan

There is still some progress worth mentioning.

Unison

I've been using Unison for a couple of weeks now, to sync this site and a couple of others. No problems until now and I've added a small unison page that will be expanded later.

Windows based OpenVPN gateway

About a month …


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Cypher status

Posted on zo 05 februari 2006 in plan • Tagged with cloud

Things are working out fine with the virtual host in the US. The basic stuff like network monitoring, disk monitoring, nagios monitoring and expansion of the OpenVPN virtual ethernet to the new host have been set up.

The virtual machine has also been set up as my third smtp host …


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Offshoring to the US

Posted on vr 03 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with cloud

While big companies are trying to offshore IT from the US to India, I'm getting ready to offshore some stuff from my home DSL connection to a Linode™ located in sunny California, the US. First thing on my list is to expand my OpenVPN network to the virtual host and …


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Xen performance problem fixed

Posted on zo 29 januari 2006 in hardware • Tagged with hardware, debian

Ever since I started using Xen 3.0 I had a feeling disk access to my primary IDE harddrive was dreadfully slow. But as I'm running 9 domains on this one machine I thought it might be normal for the load I am putting on the system.

During a free …


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