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Installing CrashPlan on WHS part 2
In my previous post "Installing CrashPlan on WHS" I looked at installing CrashPlan on my home server and making it use UNC paths. In this post I was originally intending to look at what was needed to perform a backup between two home servers using a backup seeded from a portable hard disk. I did manage to get all of that set up and working and was about to post when my friend noticed a problem. For some reason his backup files got erased and CrashPlan started a full backup over the net, this was going to take nearly...
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Installing CrashPlan on WHS
I've been looking at a backup solution for my home server for a bit. Now I'll forgive you at this point if you are thinking why do you need a backup solution for WHS when it does duplication.
Well several reasons but the main one being I want an offsite copy of most of the server contents in case of theft or fire. There are plenty of solutions out there for this but most of them require you to upload your files to the cloud and that is rather slow when trying to send a TB or so over a 800kbps...
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Installing SwissCenter on WHS
I use a Pinnacle ShowCenter for as my network media player for playing back music and movies on my A/V equipment. It's a nice bit of hardware but the software it comes with doesn't fit my needs. Fortunately the player uses a simple web browser for it's UI and this is served from the Pinnacle server so it's possible to replace the server component with a new one that provides whatever functionality you like.
There are a few open source server packages out there for the ShowCenter (and other Syabas based media devices) but the one I use, and in my...
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Using SSL certs from IIS on WHS with Apache
I recently installed a Subversion server on my WHS box. In the past I've usually installed and configured Apache and mod_svn myself, but this time I decided to use the pre-packaged version from the people behind VisualSVN.
This version still uses Apache as the server however. Now I don't like sending passwords in the clear over the net, especially to things like a source repository. The default install of VisualSVN does support SSL and comes with an SSL cert that you can use. However, since I have a cert for my WHS box anyway I thought it would be nice to...