I'm Greg, an IT pro and a certified geek for all things tech ! Welcome to my blog, where I dive headfirst into any cool new gadget, software, or tech trend that catches my eye.
Acronis
As an MSP, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can apply patch management to all devices of all your customers? that's great feature, but for now, the reboot isn't managed with the end-user consent. That's a bit annoying... 😶 Fortunately, we’ve got another ace up our
Powershell
From time to time, some of my scripts need to fire off an email with specific metrics. Since the need is coming from scripts running on Windows servers, I need a PowerShell snippet that crafts the email body from an HTML file and sends it through an external SMTP server
Acronis
Chill out and kick back. Grab your favorite geek mug, fill it with your top-notch black coffee, and let the code command ! The plan : 1. Use Ansible as the automation tool / Acronis as protection tool 2. Create inventory files for the VMs 3. Create playbook (YAML config file) to manage
Powershell
Sometimes, for backup performance tests or disaster recovery drills, I need a server that can take a real beating. Not your usual 40GB VM—nope, I’m talking a heavyweight 500GB to 1TB beast. But here’s the kicker: my lab isn’t at home... So, to load a VM,
LXC
I recently spun up a Proxmox cluster just to mess around with it. While hunting for some LXC container examples, I stumbled upon this absolute gem below : https://helper-scripts.com/scripts Holy moly, what a find ! This is pure gold—a breeze to spin up a container with just a
Acronis
I have a rocking a beautiful 10GB FTTH fiber connection—lucky me! But not everyone’s so fortunate. Some folks are stuck with old-school ADSL and a snail-paced 1MB upload speed. Luckily, technology saves the day ! With deduplication, compression, and always incremental backup strategies, we only need to send a
Ansible
Easy peasy, let's use Ansible to make the work for us ! To install Ansible, take a peek at our earlier post right here. Create your inventory host file with the list of your Linux : [linux] 10.0.4.26 10.0.4.28 10.0.4.6 10.
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