Ram's Technology Notes
One of the key goals for my Ubuntu NAS was to have the ability to create a single storage pool out of all the disks in the NAS (OS is running off a USB thumb drive) and also provide some fault tolerance such that if a single disk failed, data wasn’t lost entirely. Even though…
As part of the reorganization of my home server, I am consolidating all my music files into the home server. I quickly realized that in a misguided fit of irrationality, I had gone through a phase in the past where most of my library was in the WMA format. The problem with WMA format is…
In my home setup, we have a mix of devices (Windows 8.x, Windows RT, Windows Phone, Linux, Android and iOS). As part of my home server setup, I’ve setup Samba to share folders with the other devices – there are a few subtleties with setting up the Samba shares so you can access them with…
I was looking at my logs and noticed that smbd had crashed a few times since install. Searched the samba bug database and found this bug which was reporting the same issue. I have applied the patch supplied and updated the package – here’s how I patched and updated: In your samba source folder, run…
As part of my home server setup, one of the things I am setting up is an automated alert system that would send emails when events happen (for e.g. hard disk SMART errors, CPU temperature violation, hard disk out of space etc.). I was looking around to find the best way to send automated mail…
I am in the process of rebuilding my home server which will run Ubuntu Server – I will be putting up a series of detailed posts on my philosophy and experiences through this process. In the meantime, here’s the scoop on setting up the latest version of Samba on Ubuntu 12.04. This post provides a…
I have been using a Windows Home Server 2011 machine as my central backup and quasi-NAS solution for the past three years. About 6 months ago, I had a rather terrible experience with Windows Home Server – I have 3 other computers at home that regularly backup to the WHS every night. On my main…
I use Windows Home Server to backup all my home Windows PCs to a central location. However, lately, I have decided that I would also like to have a copy of what I deem to be critical data available offsite (in this case, outside our home) as well. I investigated cloud backup solutions – Backblaze…
In older posts here and here I described my experiences with setting up the official Buffalo DD-WRT build on the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router. It’s been a while and I’ve been wanting to update the DD-WRT version to the latest available build for this router – 22118. Why? Because being a geek, I just can’t stop tinkering…