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The coding hell of Dennis V and the daily IT of Niklas Jumlin

July 28th, 2010

Having to synchronize some data among a Debian linux cluster, i settled on using csync2 for the job.
Here’s a short guide to set it up.
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April 21st, 2010

As far as I know, after some googling I couldn’t find any program that could take backups of Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Core when the .VHD files were located on a Cluster Shared Storage.

If you read my previous post you can probably understand you aren’t able to install any advanced programs in the Core-version either because many required runtime files and libraries aren’t available.

Therefore I decided to write a PowerShell script that would export the machines to a network storage server.

Updated 2010-05-12 14:40 UTC +1 (Various fixes/Added option to exclude some virtual machines)
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January 5th, 2010

So I work with many servers and many customers. Usually I had to write a new backup script for every new customer and server. Therefore I figured I might as well just write a template that I can copy/paste everytime I have to implement a robocopy backup script. So here goes.

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