In a recent post I mentioned that I had survived an Office 365 migration with only minimal scarring. We run HPE Content Manager which is "Enterprise Software". Just like the large government agencies that Content Manager is designed for it's big, slow, resistant to change, expensive, bureaucratic but yet incredibly …

A while ago I wrote about learning from failure. This is a story of failure; Hardware failure, failure of design and failure of my self (The systems administrator) to not correct the issues earlier. It's hard to write about, but I believe that stories of failure can teach us just …

For this setup I'm using Duplicati to backup to Backblaze. In a previous post I've written some instructions on setting up Backblaze.

SSH into the server

The first thing we have to do is to SSH into the server, because Duplicati will be running as a web service on port …

For this setup I'm using Duplicati to backup to Backblaze. In a previous post I've written some instructions on setting up Backblaze.

Install

First head on over to Duplicati and download the latest version for Windows (at the time of this writing that's 2.0.2.1)

Start the installer …

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 …