Rebuilding basic infrastructure
So I had a minor crisis (read: It could have been much worse) yesterday when I realized my Unify docker container was acting as if I needed to rebuild it from scratch and I couldn’t find a backup anywhere. I…
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Samba4 AD and Bind DNS
This is Part 1 of the Great Server Migration of 2023, and I want to apologize in advance for the delayed post. I started it the day I did the work but life happened. So in preparation for that, I’m…
The Great Server Migration – Syllabus
So this post is a post where I’ll gather all of the parts together and eventually make the title match the number of posts I create detailing this project. The reason for this endeavor are multiple, but I’ll try to…
Installing WoeUSB-ng on RHEL 9
I had a moment where without going to any of the Windows devices in the house or the macOS device I needed to write a Windows ISO for a machine that wouldn’t boot the Ventoy USB stick I have. Specifically…
Hashing Times + Backup Script
Hashing Times I did a timed test against md5, sha256, and sha512 and here are the results. These tests were run on local storage. When running the tests against a file on an offsite network share the results varied significantly.…
Another Start-Job example
In reference to the post I made yesterday about Start-Job, here is an example where the function is passed into the Start-Job so it can be reused inside of that child process. This enables you to A) make code that…
Start-Job,Variables, and ntfy.sh
So I’m working on a script that can check on the status of machines that are being re-imaged. Since there files that can be expected to appear as it re-images, we can use that to gauge the success/failure of the…
Brief post about Docker permissions
So I run Docker inside of a pair of VM’s based on Debian 11. I mount an SMB share that is stored on the ZFS pool that is managed by the ProxMox host which is where all of the Docker…
Bash/PowerShell scripting
Been working on several scripts One of which is utilizing ntfy.sh to help me stay on top of utilities that need to run without fail. An example would be a nightly backup script. Before email became locked down a person…
Last post testing ActivityPub.
Alrighty, this is the final post in testing this. The main thing I noticed in enabling the plugin is that it will toot when the post goes live, very handy. Also if someone comments on the post over on Mastodon,…