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Today we’ll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We’ll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications. Read the rest of this entry »

Snapshot filesystems, which offer instant-availability backups from multiple time points, are a great idea. But migrating to a new filesystem is a major deal. rsnapshot works on an ext3 filesystem, Read the rest of this entry »

Open source projects and vendors are trying a variety of technical approaches to replacing the expensive but ubiquitous Microsoft Exchange. While none is yet a drop-in replacement, some administrators can get a TCO advantage by switching. Read the rest of this entry »