Limitation of 4 NICs in a VMWare-Machine

As I wrote before I gonna configure a network on a VMWare-Server.At this point, I got al the ‘werkstations’ configured and start configuring the FreeBSD instance… but I actually need about 7 networkcards… but… VMWare only allows you to use 4…

Retention of 7 backups

As I wrote in some posts earlier, I am working on a backupscript named Herakles. In the meanwhile I wrote a tiny shell-script which takes care of the retention. You can call this script using i.e. the crontab. So you can define the number of reten…

Testing a new packet filter config using VMWare Server

At Snow we want to implement a new packet filter config for the office-LAN. Although we really want to test it in a proper way, so we are gonna install VMWare Server te emulate the current network So hopefully the new config does go directly onlin…

Ordered a FON-router

Via one of my fellow Snow-workers I ordered a free FON-router. So I can offer WiFi Access around my home for other FON-users….

First week @ Snow

The 2nd of april I started as Engineer for the company Snow. The first day we received some company shirts and they told us that we, as Engineers, are not allowed to wear suits… with ties At this moment the sales-department is looking for a proj…

Windows Vista

Luckely I am not the only one facing troubles with Windows Vista:

Having fun with QEMU

During looking for the Knoppixremaster howto… I read somewhere about QEMU. So I start playing around with QEMU… and guess what… at a certain moment I had running:Gentoo (Host-system)Knoppix 5.1.1FreeBSD 6.1Windows XP SP2 installationsSo this…

Bandwith Saving

Herakles is currently running for 6 days… so it is time to get a review of the bandwith consuming of the script. Down here you find the upstream graph with the total amount of gigabytes a day.The yellow bars are the days when we still used the o…

Added some new stuff to Herakles 0.0.2

Yesterday evening I added some new features, so version 0.0.2 is born (still beta): STDIN output 1 & 2 are put into the $LOG_FILERegister the PID of the script in $LOCKFILEWhen script started, check if it is not already running by checking the…

Herakles, the new backup-script

The last time I am working on another way of making my backups. The current procedure is time-consuming and bandwith-eating. Today I wrote the first version of the script. From this point it is a proof of concept using Rsync over SSH.When I have s…