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This guide can serve as a general to do list when you receive a disk error on a NAS device protected by redundant disks, for example: RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, etc. With this process, you will not have any data loss, unless you unplug the wrong disk or perform the steps indicated here not in the correct order. So, please pay attention to the instructions.

First of all it’s important to identify the correct disk to replace, and keep in mind that, for data loss risks, you do not want to run a failing disk for long. A failing disk is a disk on which, bad sectors are starting to appear, and the SMART disk troubleshooting indicates an imminent failure. Continue reading “Replace Failed Drive in RAID Array”

After the CrowdStrike incident, I decided to remind everyone that Windows has no business running business critical applications. In this article I will cover why it’s not a good idea and why it’s a great idea to have UNIX/Linux derivatives to run business critical applications.

First let’s describe how Windows evolved into the operating system of today and why it cannot change its core architecture to accomodate business critical applications die to the lack of of what I call foundational security. Continue reading “The case for UNIX to run your business critical applications and not Windows”

Did you ever wanted to run a Minecraft server, but after looking at the instructions, tried different ways, at in the end, gave up? Or you just want a quick and easy way to run a Minecraft server? Well this article is for you.

I am going to show you how to quickly get a integrated Minecraft server, bedrock and Java into a single configuration executed in docker containers.

In order to accomplish this, we need to run two products, a spigot server and a geyser server, a spigot is a high performance Java Minecraft server, and a geyser server is a gateway for bedrock clients to use a Java server. Continue reading “Run Minecraft (Spigot) and Geyser server in Containers”

Awk is one of the most useful commands in Unix. Awk stands for the three programmers which created the utility, Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. Awk gives you the ability to take STDIN and apply programming logic to it. For example:

Continue reading “The mystical AWK utility”

I decided to write this post mainly because during my career, I’ve experienced many people not understanding private/public keys, the different uses, when and when not to use them.

This article is going to cover public/private key pairs to use only with SSH, but there are many uses for public/private key pair, however, they are beyond the scope of this article.

In the most simpler terms, a private/public key pair can be considered like a door lock and a key, the door lock can be compared to the public key, and the key to the provate key. Everyone can see the door lock, but only the key can open it, you need both to be able to unlock the door.

Continue reading “SSH Public/Private Keys Explained”

Lately I had a need to move the Docker root directory to a different filesystem. After researching the item and saw that the documentation out there was limited and not very clear, I decided to write the necessary steps here.

By default, on most systems, the docker root directory is located in the directory /var/lib/docker, this directory is used to store thigs like images, volumes, and other different docker runtime items. In order to move this directory to a different location, let’s say /opt/docker-root, there are few steps required, more specifically:

Continue reading “Relocate Docker Data Root Directory”