My Ceph Cluster runs now! And it is amizingly powerful :-) Updates for Ceph Reef. Quincy is not yet the latest release anymore, I reinstalled my cluster with Reef (now…
Taming The Cephodian Octopus – Reef
How To Open Your Zipper – Use Fuse To Browse Archives
Since I did many Backups of important folder in former times using 7z (one snapshot had 14 GB), I was searching for a way to access it more easily. For…
Integrating wmBus devices into iobroker
Since I've replaced ioBroker with Home Assistant, I also wrote an article about integrating M-Bus devices via MQTT with HASS. Another post, doing the same with wmBus can be found…
Sorting Your Digital Mess – How to Easily Set-Up a Private Search Engine
Motivation In my vacations, I kicked-off some new projects. One of it is an ARM64 based SBC with integrated SATA mostly like the Odroid-HC1/2. The main difference is the ARM…
Installing BigBlueButton on Your Dedicated Server
Introduction After struggling with a dedicated server from Strato Webhosting, running ubuntu 18.04 and playing around with schroot to get some ubuntu 16.04 environment, I gave up with this solution.…
School’s out – How to Tame Your Children
Introduction - Historic Reasons for this Post Here in Germany, executive decided to lock all public life down to a minimum (only system relevant shops are allowed to be opened…
How To Debug Hardware-Faults on Your Dedicated Server
While installing some stuff on a dedicated server at Strato, I encountered a problem with the server two times. While having no clue what happened during the first time, I…
Merging the Contents of Two InfluxDBs
Eveer had the problem that data runs into two different influx databases and you want to merge the data into a single one? You wonder, why this can happen? Then…
Headless Rescue System over SSH
Again, I stumbled over some problem... I need to draw some backup disk image of a headless bare metal server, to run a risky update of atlassian tools. And yes,…