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George Metz

I'm a network engineer for a local health system and general tech hobbyist.

Backwoods Maine •
8 posts •
Back to the Future - OpenMediaVault Returns

Back to the Future - OpenMediaVault Returns

During a conversation with another labber about NAS options, the subject of OpenMediaVault (OMV) came up, during which I decided I wanted to see what was going on with my old NAS distro.

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So much for hyperconverged - now I'm spreading out.

So much for hyperconverged - now I'm spreading out.

Because the world has turned upside down in the last month and a half, I haven't had a lot of time to proceed. And then Trumpbucks happened, and I couldn't pull the trigger

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Going "Hyperconverged" - aka The All-in-One Server - just, backwards.

Going "Hyperconverged" - aka The All-in-One Server - just, backwards.

Once upon a time I'd set up my infrastructure to be running everything in one system, at least partly to cut down on power usage. It was a bit of a disaster.WHY

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VDX6720 - Second Impressions

VDX6720 - Second Impressions

Been playing around a little more with the VDX6720, more as something to do than a real need to do anything with it. I managed to get the lingering configs (oh, and the

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Brocade VDX6720 - What? I can't hear you!

Brocade VDX6720 - What? I can't hear you!

Grabbed one of these as an impulse purchase the other day. It's part of Brocade's datacenter line, which is an entirely different critter from their former Campus line.A quick search around the

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Moving from Direct-install Duplicati to Docker - the not-so-easy way

Moving from Direct-install Duplicati to Docker - the not-so-easy way

As part of the migration from OpenMediaVault to Ubuntu for my NAS, one of the "missing pieces" was Duplicati. I'd been using the OMV Duplicati plugin right along, and it was obviously not

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The Great Migration Part II: Because why the hell not?

The Great Migration Part II: Because why the hell not?

So I had been dragging my feet for the last couple of weeks, not wanting to take the plunge and actually go through with the migration. To the point where I was starting

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The Great Migration: Converting from OpenMediaVault to a custom Ubuntu NAS (Part I)

The Great Migration: Converting from OpenMediaVault to a custom Ubuntu NAS (Part I)

Of late, my NAS, which has admittedly gone through so many upgrades it's ridiculous, has started getting really squirrelly. The last clean install was right around the release of OMV 3.0, which

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