We have a setup at work where we have two Hyper-V servers in a failover cluster mounting a VHD on a NAS¹ as an iSCSI target running a number of VMs that get backed up by Veeam.

Recently we had a hard drive failure in the NAS. The NAS …

Recently a discussion came up on the ITPA discourse, where the Australian Federal Government is trying to get backdoor¹ access to the content of encrypted messaging apps.

This included a great quote² from our esteemed leader Malcolm Turnbull:

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only …

A while ago I got an email from someone who was Googling for rsync crashplan and stumbled upon a previous blog post about backing up servers with rsync then using Crashplan to backup those files.

They were desperately looking for some kind of rsync-like solution to restore a lot of …

I was recently looking at a number of application whitelisting solutions and one of the ones I was looking at was Carbon Black. I spent quite a bit of time on their website trying to see if they actually published any solid, useful, technical documentation about what it is they …

Previously I did a tutorial on Installing Debian 8 Jessie with full disk encryption, in that tutorial I went into a lot of detail about manually partitioning the disks. If for some reason you want to manually partition your disks I would reccomend that tutorial, it will still work for …