Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true.
Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had not [...]

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I was trying to delete some archived files from our file server today but kept running into a “Can not delete this file” error. It didn’t give me any more details than that when I tried to delete the archived files.
I tried to change the permissions and change the ownership on the files so that [...]

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- a tutorial on backups
I dont think you can ever realise how important it is to backup your files until the first time you lose them… I have had many people ask for me to recover data from a crashed computer because they have never backed up their computer. Products are being produced all the [...]

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As my hard drive size has gotten bigger it has become easier to fill it up with sometimes useless stuff. Even when the stuff is not useless, it can still be hard to manage all the files on my computer’s hard drive and know how much space on the hard drive is actually being taken [...]

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Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing - imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance to “upgrade” to an old 20GB hard drive that I [...]

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While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free.
Below is a partial feature list for FreeNAS:

Built upon FreeBSD 6
Configured and managed through [...]

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