A wordy one this time. I bought a handful of the NanoKVM lites (and a couple with screens) late last year. They are pretty good

Sometimes the grub config falls out of sync on OVH, because of their super weird paritioning I think. You need to boot into rescue mode,

Ubuntu 24 LTS – Unifi Mongo Upgrades For the longest time unifi has only supported mongodb 3.6 or older (or mongodb 4.4 for some newer

Recently we were staying in a hotel for a couple of nights away, the weather turned rubbish so we went to bed early and read

I have setup an ansible run book to update all my linux boxes, this post is mostly just my notes! Add User to host to

It’s been a while since I have needed to extend a VM’s disk, but things have moved on and a new utility, to me,  (growpart)

Just a quick one today. I started playing with Proxmox on a Beelink U59 Pro, there were some VM instabilities and it turns out I

Replace failed drive ZFS This document is taken from Jordan Elver’s Blog

Quick article about re-writing the from address from postfix. First install the libsasl2-modules. Add the following to main.cf  sender_canonical_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender sender_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical_maps

An old plugin back to life! Below is the check_rss.py script for pulling RSS feeds into your monitoring platform. I’m currently using ITOpenCOCKPIT, although I

Using the excellent check_pve.rb script I have setup comprehensive monitoring for proxmox servers, both locally and remotely. In case the script disappears, here are some

Windows Physical Server to Proxmox I am fortunate enough that even with my main job, I am allowed to take side hustles. These are normally

Pi Backup Time for another text based pi article.. sorry! Attach the USB disk to the pi. Next download pi shrink wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Drewsif/PiShrink/master/pishrink.sh sudo chmod

I realised that one of my 3Tb drives was very, very old. It wasn’t failing yet, but it would probably be best to proactively replaced

This one is going to be word and code heavy. Firstly shutdown the hyper-v gen2 VM. Copy the VHDX to the proxmox server, remember you

Pi Rack I decided that I wanted to tidy up my lack rack and put my two Pi’s rack mounted and out of the way. 

Over the last couple of months I have relied on a couple of web articles to get me through particularly specific issues. I hope these

I’ve been using SES for a while for sending email from servers. A few months ago one of my servers was compromised and I discovered

I have had a couple of requirements recently where I have needed to leave a device onsite for remote access. I initially thought that the

Let’s Encrypt using DNS on Cloudkey 2+ & Backups Update: 16/02/2021 – For CK2+ off controller backups see this great how-to: https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/backup-unifi-controller-to-cloud/ Update: 22/12/2020 – Use this

Rack Mount Lego Server Stolen from a LinkedIn post. Parts List: Element ID (BrickLink) Description Quantity 11211 Brick – Modified 1×2 with Studs on 1