How to use Clonezilla to Create and Backup Disk Images to FreeNAS
FreeNAS is an open source storage platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and Unix/Linux systems. Clonezilla is an open source clone utility for doing bare-metal backup and recovery for disks and disk partitions. In this post I will describe how to use Clonezilla to create image files of disks or […] Read More →
A Quick Review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for PC
I bought the Steam version of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and played as a female Nord warrior named Amenia. I spent over 275 hours in Skyrim and finished my experience at level 52. I used a series of custom made warhammers throughout the campaign, and my traveling NPC companion was Lydia, another Nord […] Read More →
cron Howto
(20170327 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) cron is a time-based job scheduler in BSD, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It is commonly used to schedule system maintenance or administrative tasks, however it can also be used by system users to schedule […] Read More →
What’s Your IP?
I’ve added a Your IP tab at the top of the site that will bring you to a page that displays your current IP address as well as some other http connection-related information. A geeky little task I’ve been meaning to do for awhile now. Here’s the code I hacked together for it. As always, […] Read More →
Backup FreeNAS Files Remotely Using FreeBSD and rsync
FreeNAS is an open source storage platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and Unix/Linux systems. rsync is an open source file copying utility for Linux/Unix systems. It’s famous for its “delta-transfer” algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source […] Read More →