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I’ve had this persistent on and off again problem where my backup server in my homelab will just randomly stop responding after a few days of operation. The specs are: The behaviour was weird. Everything would work fine for a few days and then the server would be inaccessible via RDP or the local console. … Read more
Had a task today to audit our Dell iDRACs to determine what firmware they were running and if we had to update them. With the help of Gitlab CoPilot I quickly whipped up this bash script: Sample output: If anyone ends up running this against some of the earlier iDRAC models, and it works, drop … Read more
My Homelab consists of 4 Windows Servers. They were all initially running Windows Server 2019 (2 GUI, 2 Core) which were at some point upgraded to Windows Server 2022 and then again to Windows Server 2025. After the latest in-place upgrades to Server 2025 my two GUI based installs had no problem installing Windows Updates … Read more
Just upgraded my Homelab’s Veeam Deployment to 12.3 and during the process there was a big warning about having Antivirus exceptions configured properly for Veeam. In my environment I’m also using PostgreSQL as my database back-end for Veeam. Based on the information provided I whipped up a quick script to add/remove exceptions to Microsoft Defender … Read more
I use Mullvad VPN on a Kali VM and wanted to start taking advantage of their apt repo so my Mullvad client would update when I run OS updates via apt. Using the instructions they provide on their page: https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/linux make the following tweak to the second command under the ‘Ubuntu/Debian’ section: If you run … Read more