Yet another drive in yet another raid array has failed on me. This one is less important, though, so we’re not replacing it. And also, $300 for a 78 GB drive is just crazy. We’re going to let the hot spare rebuild the array, and the plan is that when the next […]
Yesterday, I swapped around yet another spare drive in my RAID enclosure, hoping, on the advice of the Adaptec techs, that this would stop my irritating runs-for-24-hours-and-then-dies problem.
It did not. Now, I’m left with the conclusion that I’m facing a situation like that described in Adaptec knowledge base article #2328, which tells me I […]
In a long overdue move, and as part of a rolling-out of XP SP2, I’m turning off roaming profiles on my samba PDC. This involves a change on the clients. Here’s the recipe:
In the Group Policy Editor (C:\windows\system32\gpedit.msc), under the “Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles” tree, enable “Prevent Roaming Profile changes from propagating to […]
I’ve been fighting a running battle against my RAID controller and enclosure for the past two weeks.
Doing some research into backup utilities that would work over rsync and ssh, I came across dervish, which seemed like a likely candidate, or at least a place to start looking. This was a few months ago. When I had occasion to come back to it, I found that the link I’d slipped […]