Apple Mac OS X Time Machine over NFS (10.5 or greater)

Create a Sparebundle to copy to your NFS/SMB/AFP volume hdiutil create -size $SIZEg -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname “Backup of $MACHINENAME” $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle Use ifconfig and sub in your $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS into the sparsebundle filename – Remove the ‘:’ chars e.g. 0018b31184dd Use hostname to get your machines hostname – Don’t use fqdn Size can be adjusted […]

Slashdot for iPhone hosted @ cooperlees.com …

Just thought I would let people know that I have borrowed the source from http://pixelcity.com/s/ (as it was broke 20090818) so that I can continue to look at a fast loading Slashdot for my iPhone. For more information visit http://www.pixelcity.com/slashdot/ – Thanks for the sweet (but very hacky) code :). The URL: http://cooperlees.com/s/ I made […]

Solaris and ‘Growing’ / ‘Expanding’ your Zpool – With little down time …

<zfs nerd post> At home (on this server) I have a Zpool consisting of 3 disks in a RAIDZ1 group. I needed more disc space, so 1 by 1 I changed my 3 x 500G drives to 1tb drives. This would of been pretty much no down time (except for an export and import of […]