Lesson Learned – Test Your Backups!
I like to think that I’ve come a long way since I first started noodling around with Plex back in … wow – 2014?! What was first an install on ...
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“Upgrade your server!” they said. “It’ll be EASY!!!” they said…
It’s been a while since I’ve done much tinkering with my home servers – frankly because I’ve been pretty satisfied how they’ve bee...
FINALLY! An Actual Use for QR Codes!!!
There’s no sense in holding back now – I’ve honestly always thought that QR codes were kind of dumb. BUT… I just stumbled across a prett...
Evolution of a Media Collection
I wish I had kept better records of this over time – I’m basically just going by when I added new drives, but it’s still crazy to see how this...
To Migrate 70 Terabytes…
It’s true. The project that I started almost two months ago to migrate all of my home server data from rapidly aging desktop hardware to a rackmount NAS i...
A Change of Backup…
This past weekend I finally made the decision to switch backup providers from CrashPlan to Backblaze. I think. It seems like I’ve been using CrashPlan for...
How to Grow a Virtual Disk… (the long way)
So to any sysadmins who do this kind of stuff on a daily basis, this is going to seem way obvious, but for somebody who doesn’t and has been struggling wi...
Cleaning Day, iPhone Edition
How many apps do you have on your phone right now? Apparently I have over 130 apps, and honestly when I started going through my list, there were some that I ha...
oh poopies…
So apparently I had a hard drive crash in my Plex server while we were on vacation last week. Possibly two … still looking into that! What’s really ...
I feel the need … the need for Internet speed…
I get a little antsy about my home Internet speed when I spend any amount of time planning out home server stuff, and considering my little purchase of 50 TB of...