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KVM VM Image Crash

So, something bad happened! My Virtual Machine running on my NAS crashed. And it looked like this… 2020-05-08T19:51:09.582896Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/share/Storage/VM/Windows 10 Enterprise/Windows 10 Enterprise.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=writeback: qcow2: Image is corrupt; cannot be opened read/write So I did what I normally do, I started googling, and found a bunch of old articles saying that I had to install some “nbd” module in...

AWS Glacier!

Hard drives will fail! Manufacturers of hard drives like to boast about “MTBF” (Mean Time Between Failures) and “AFR” (Annualized Failure Rate) rates that indicates that the drive would last anywhere from 300 000 hours (~34 years) to having a likely hood of failing during a year as low as 0,8%. But real life tests, performed by companies like BackBlaze show...

Backup your VPS to Google Drive

If you only have a small amount of data to backup, Google Drive is actually quite a decent alternative, but you will need to install a few tools to you VPS. With the tool rclone (rsync for cloud), you can upload your files to Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox and a few more. The procedure is almost the same no...

Simon Holmbring

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