Posted on May 30, 2022
| 6 minutes
| 1247 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Backup is not a tool. Backup is not a software you can buy. Backup is a strategy you need to study and implement to be able to solve your specific problems.
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Posted on December 4, 2021
| 2 minutes
| 266 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Raspberry PI i4 s a great platform for FreeBSD but if u-boot detects there’s a powered hub, the boot seems to go crazy. It isn’t even able to recognize the SD partitions. The result is that the Rpi4 won’t boot and start loop.
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Posted on October 6, 2020
| 4 minutes
| 806 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Lxc containers are fast, small and useful. Proxmox Backup Server is quite slow with them, so here’s how to perform a fast and efficient backup using Borg.
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Posted on August 23, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 336 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) has been released. It’s still in beta but is already perfectly usable. After many years, it’s now possible to perform incremental backups of the VMs and thanks to the qemu dirty bitmaps, backups are also fast.
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Posted on June 30, 2020
| 9 minutes
| 1867 words
| Stefano Marinelli
I have already dealt with the problem of performing a correct backup. This time I will give you some insights into how I make backups and how I am able to guarantee a certain level of security.
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Posted on June 29, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 307 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Cephfs is great. It can be used to store and share files and can take advantage of the granularity and performance of Ceph. Big amounts of data can be stored and live snapshots can be taken so remote backups can be easily performed.
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