It’s a long time since I was using ZFS. I had some bad luck with ZFS in the past. No – that’s not 100% true, it was not the ZFS itself, but a damaged controller. Meanwhile I managed to get a replacement for the controller (Intel SASUC8i) which works fine in my main server (Risu) since September. Read more.
Server back to Debian
Friday, 8. April 2011You maybe remember my happiness with ZFS. Well, how should I say? Using ZFS as a private person has it’s drawbacks. When you run OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, Nexenta or even (brrr) Solaris 11 Express – you mostly use it for ZFS. Sure – you can virtualize stuff using VirtualBox, but I personally still missed the “easy” things I can do with the “real” Debian for example hddtemp – as simple as this sounds! Read more.
Karinka upgraded
Tuesday, 8. February 2011End of 2010, after some fails with building a reliable fileserver and way too much redesigns in the office, I said that I’m happy with the Mac Pro, the screens and the fileserver. That’s true until today 
The Nexenta Core is an awesome OS for a fileserver, it’s fast, very solid and stable. Read more.
Move a VMware Fusion VM to VirtualBox on NexentaCore
Friday, 4. February 2011I’m still very satisfied with my Nexenta ZFS server “Karinka”. It has an uptime of 28 days, just interrupted 28 days ago to put in 4 more HDs (4x 1.5TB) for an internal backup. Next week, I will have to shorty shut it down again – the reason: More memory. Read more.
Automatic snapshots with Nexenta
Thursday, 13. January 2011Another day, another script 
This one is so small & tiny that it don’t make sense to provide a download. Read more.
gesund-02 – logs & testmode added
Wednesday, 12. January 2011Last night I was sitting in front of my MacBook and thought it would be a nice idea to add a log, so you know WHEN something went wrong. Also, I implemented a testmode, so you don’t have to manipulate the shell script everytime you want to run a test. Read more.
gesund-01 release
Tuesday, 11. January 2011MaxiDim has commented on my last post that it’s a wise idea to be informed if something went wrong with your ZFS pool(s). I agree. He posted an example how to realize this using eMail. Well, I think eMail is fine, but prowl is even better Read more.
Time Machine Volumes with ZFS & AFP
Sunday, 9. January 2011After moving to Nexenta with ZFS, I of course wanted to keep hourly backups of the Macs in the network. We’re currently running 6 of them: Read more.
Nexenta and HDD temperatures
Thursday, 6. January 2011Nexenta is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. It’s mainly an Ubuntu server installation with the OpenSolaris kernel. A lot of packages are available via apt-get, but not all stuff you maybe know from Debian. Read more.
Fileserver & backups
Sunday, 2. January 2011It’s a few weeks since reported about fileservers the last time. For a long time, I have used my Mac mini (2007) with 2 connected Onnto DataTales. Read more.
