Business Continuity Planning for Transactional Businesses

Business Continuity Planning is critical for transactional businesses more-so than non-transactional businesses. What do I mean by "transactional"? If you ...
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An AWS IAM Custom Policy To Allow EC2 Snapshots

This article shows how to create a custom AWS IAM policy to allow snapshots. The first code snippet is what ...
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Solution to the “abrt-cli status timed out” problem

This article will help you if you're receiving any of the following error messages. The short answer is that you ...
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RDS Switch From Multi-AZ to Single-Zone

This article demonstrates how to downgrade an RDS MySQL instance from multi-availability-zone (Multi-AZ) to a single instance (single zone). The ...
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The Australian Encryption Laws – A Solution

The Australian lawmakers are passing laws that progressively take away privacy of the citizens of this country. The most recent ...
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How to Integrate Gluster and Samba4 on CentOS7 and RHEL

This article extends on a previous article focused on installing and performance testing Gluster on CentOS 7. You can see ...
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Testing Gluster 4.1.5 on CentOS 7

Gluster is an amazing Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution offered as part of the Redhat solutions portfolio. Here we push ...
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Installing Janus on Redhat Enterprise Linux

This article discusses the installation of Janus on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 server. The installation process is long and ...
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Easy Incremental Backups With Tar on CentOS & Redhat

Disk space may be cheep but off-site backups are often slow so daily full-backups aren't always the best option. Tar ...
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ClamAV – Find & Move Viruses, Exclude Directories & Notify of Infections

This article demonstrates how to find viruses on your Linux workstation or server, move the virus to a special directory ...
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Restrict SSH Access By User or Group on CentOS and Redhat Enteprise Linux 7

This article demonstrates how to restrict SSH access to only specified users and/or groups. You can do the reverse by ...
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Mounting An NFS Share On MACOS

This is a quick one-liner to remind you how to mount an NFS share on a MACOS client. sudo mount ...
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Gluster: What happens if …?

This article lists some situations you might find yourself in with Gluster and what you can expect. Basically I've tried ...
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Linux for Windows Gurus

If you're a Windows system administrator with a need to log into a Linux server and troubleshoot it, this article ...
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Enable CORS With NginX

Like happens so often, the notes and comments you found in forums don't quiet work how you expected. In this ...
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Manage Everything With Ansible

Ansible is a buzz word at the moment. Ever since Redhat purchased Ansible back in 2016, it has been rare ...
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Creating & Restoring From Snapshots in AWS

Just like with VMWare or Hyper-V, Amazon's AWS supports snapshots and they make it easy to create them and restore ...
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How to Test Zabbix Events & Alerts

Zabbix is a great monitoring system but only when you actually get alerted to issues. There is no "Test" button ...
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