My Dell XPS 8700 desktop comes with a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. By adding another 2 port Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller I wanted to get a faster connection to the servers. Note that each of the HP Microserver servers has a 2Gbps connection obtained by NIC teaming the 2 port adapters in Linux.… Read More »
Starting with firmware version 1.4 EdgeRouter can be configured in a dual WAN setup using a very simple wizard. Then to configure some port forwarding rules to access the internal web server or VPNs there is a nice GUI setup window. Note that I experienced frequent switches between the main WAN and the backup WAN.… Read More »
Everybody hates Add Servers so all my PC and mobile browsers use AddBlock+, but still I do not want the extra traffic that is done even by using ad blockers. The best solution is to simply block from the EdgeRouter Ubiquiti Networks ERLite-3 EdgeRouter Lite the ad sites. The best guide for this is: EdgeMAX… Read More »
To be able to do several CLI configurations administrator (root) account must be activated. By default EdgeRouter has this account disabled. It seems that even if is activated a firmware upgrade will revert it to the default configuration (disabled). To activate the root account follow the tutorial: EdgeMAX – What is the root account password?… Read More »
All started when I wanted to have a true HA configuration for the server nodes. That implies that not only the storage of each server is a RAID10 setup, but also the boot and root resources are in a RAID1 configuration. I started to use an old and known tutorial to convert from standard installation… Read More »
As more and more “smart home” devices got installed around the house the need to have 24/7 Internet connection was more and more a necessity. The solution I choose was to have a back-up mobile Internet for the home. To make this completly transparent to the “Internet of things” from the house this backup had… Read More »
A good way to backup the OS of the servers is to use rear Relax and Recover. Following are the steps to ensure that we have a proper rescue data set for both servers. STEP 1: Install rear from the Fedora repo on both nas1 and nas2 [root@nas1 ~]# dnf install rear [root@nas2 ~]# dnf… Read More »
The following are the steps to set up LTFS with a HP Ultrium 3000 and Fedora. STEP 1: Download from HP site and install HP Library & Tape Tools (hp_ltt418_linux_x86_64.tar). STEP 2: Download the HP Store Open Standalone binaries for RHEL x64 from the HP website. (HP_StoreOpen_Standalone_2.3.0_for_RHELx64_Z7550-01726.tar.gz) STEP 3: Install the rpm on Fedora Linux.… Read More »
As the home environment becomes more complicated the need for an integrated whole solution for the entire environment was necessary. I already have an automatic backup setup using Barracuda Yosemite Server Backup, but this is only for one server (nas1) where OwnCloud is residing. The daily backup job in fact does a backup only for… Read More »
Basic Usage Convert PostScript to PDF: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.ps Merge/combine PDF and/or PostScript files: gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf \ filein.ps filein2.pdf Extract a page from a PostScript or a PDF document: gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=3 \ -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.ps Additional Options PDF optimization level selection… Read More »