If in your Fritz!Box modem/router is not present an internal capability to reboot the appliance on a specific schedule, you can use an external Linux box connected to it to run a shell script that requests the reboot as you need. Below a very simple…
Continue reading...Having any number of disks connected to your system put you in charge of monitoring their health, acting in the right way when a disk is about to fail is crucial.
Making use of a tool that, when run on a scheduled basis, notify you on screen when a disk is not passing an healthcheck could prevent disaster from occurring.
Let's have a look at a script that could be used as a starting point to create an always on monitoring disk tool.
Continue reading...Using VPS instances provided by Contabo could be quite easy and not that expensive, but keep in mind to always have some backup at hand and to always keep at least a single snapshot of each instance (a single snapshot is included in the standard plan).
Not forgetting this layer of data preservation could help a lot and speed up recovery processes, so ... why not having this procedures fully automated and run by some Linux system ?
Let's have a look at a possible script ...
Continue reading...When self hosting your own backup system it's not that uncommon to have some sort of monitoring system, just to make sure backups are present and exectuted according to the scheduling.
To address this topic I added to my backup hosting server a script that:
- analyze if there are files modified in a specific internal
- use "s-nail" to send email notifications in case of issues
If you manage backups using Borg Backup you might end up consuming a lot of space on your storage (local and/or remote), even if you have scheduled "borg prune" sessions, you are using deduplication/compression also at file system level, etc. etc. To make room for…
Continue reading...Questa classe PHP rende disponibili una serie di funzionalità relative a: - manipolazione stringhe- visualizzazione messaggi di debug - rimozione elementi "non attivi" da un array - rimozione elementi "non attivi" da un oggetto - conversione da array a oggetto - invio di uno stream…
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