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 …

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 recently purchased my grandfather's house which he built himself in the mid 1950s. My fiancé and I were painting the house and we came across a pipe sticking out of the wall just above the rain water tank.

Looking inside the roof we discoved that this pipe came from …

I've got a couple of VPS boxes over at RansomIT including the server that run this site¹. One of those boxes is a cheap little VPS with 512MB of RAM that costs me $5 a month. I need to back up this box, my usual go to for personal …

A mate from work had a LUKS volume that he had setup and was using to store his personal documents, things like scanned copies of invoices and tax information. Unfortunately in a momentary lapse of concentration after mounting it he ran mkfs.ext4 over it.

I'm sure we have all …