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Hyper-V, USBIP & Home Assistant

Hyper-V, USBIP & Home Assistant

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I recently purchased a number of Zigbee 3 bulbs to install around my house, but unfortunately the Philips Hue hub seems to be locked down to only support lights from their preferred manufacturers. So, I’ve started setting up Home Assistant, installed within a Hyper-V virtual machine. The idea is to eventually replace the Hue hub with a more flexible and less expensive system. Home Assistant supports loads of Zigbee gateways, so I grabbed a Sonoff Dongle P from Amazon. This…

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Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula

Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula

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UPDATE: This article is somewhat out of date. Bacula has provided a native plugin for performing backups of the database store for quite a while. Visit www.bacula.org for more information! Over the past couple of days I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State and Exchange Server 2007 Information Store Databases. Bacula currently doesn’t support VSS backups of a 64-Bit version of Windows Server 2008, so there’s a…

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Booting a Centos Xen Dom0 under VMWare

Booting a Centos Xen Dom0 under VMWare

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Just a few quick notes on how I got a CentOS v4.4 Xen dom0 to boot inside a VMWare Server VM… yum install bridge-utils SDL rpm -ivh xen-3.0.4.1-1.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.16.33-3.0.4.1.i386.rpm vi /etc/yum.conf Add: exclude=xen xen-kernel xen-devel kernel mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled mkinitrd -f -v –preload=scsi_mod –preload=sd_mod –preload=mptbase –preload=mptscsih –preload=mptfc –preload=mptspi /boot/initrd-2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1.img 2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1 vi /boot/grub/grub.conf Add:   title Xen v3.0   root (hd0,0)   kernel /xen-3.0.gz noreboot dom0_mem=128000   module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/VolGroup00/root   module /initrd-2.6-xen.img Reboot!

A few interesting links….

A few interesting links….

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Here’s a couple of interesting links I found today… Simple HA/HP clustering Using Only DNS Google Video Search Plus Trent Reznor has finally announced in the nin.com Q/A section when the next Nine Inch Nails album is going to be released!