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ReadyNAS Rules

todbot — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:38:57 +0000

I recently obtained a ReadyNAS NV by Infrant, on the recommendation of my friend Ben Franco, who’s done much research on large disk arrays. The ReadyNAS pretty much rules. I think my long-standing storage woes may finally be over.

It’s a dedicated Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that does RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, or a proprietary combo of the three called “X-RAID”. X-RAID allows you to start with one disk, move to two, then three, then four, all without rebuilding the RAID or changing RAID levels.

It has a really nice web-based GUI. You would hardly know that deep-down it’s [...]

secure cvs setup

todbot — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:12:31 +0000

On server (called ‘booty’, say): % sudo mkdir /usr/local/cvs % sudo cvs -d /usr/local/cvs init % sudo chmod -R a+rw /usr/local/cvs

On client (called ‘junk’, say): % export CVSROOT=${USER}@booty:/usr/local/cvs % export CVS_RSH=ssh % mkdir testimport % cd testimport % touch hellothere % cvs import -m "initial import" testimport testimport start % cd .. % mv testimport testimport.away % cvs checkout testimport

No other work, like setting up a cvs ‘pserver’ with inetd is required.

ssh and tar thru ssh gateway

todbot — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:26:58 +0000

I have an ssh gateway (let’s call it gate) that I use to access my internal network. On that net, I have a machine (let’s call it stuff) with stuff I want. A lot of stuff. And I want to use tar to preserve the permissions and symlinks and stuff on the files. I’ve done this before, but that knowledge is lost to the misty times of the dot-com days. But I re-figured it out:

From somewhere out on the net…

Try to log into the internal machine:

somewhere% ssh -t gate 'ssh stuff'

This gets you logged into [...]