Rob Garth Mildly Useful Stuff

Using Google Drive as a backend for Duplicity

Dupicity can use Google Drive as a cloud backend for your Linux Workstation backups. The following works on Fedora.

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New Blog

I have been running a Wordpress blog on Redhat Openshift for several years. Recently Redhat’s free-tier was removed. I hadn’t updated the blog in a few years, so I decided to start fresh.

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Centos 6, Corosync and Pacemaker for a simple Active/Passive cluster

Just playing with Corosync so I thought I would include a simple howto. For examples sake, we will setup an OpenVPN server with a fail-over.

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Fedora/Exim/Gmail

Ever since working with Debian, I have wondered why more Linux distros don’t ship with exim on as the default mail client.

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Corrupted drive, missing superblock

I was passed a currupt LVM volume today and asked to recover it. It was completely screwed. “dumpe2fs” could not give me a list of superblocks for me to pass to fsck.

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