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Creating Bootable USB Drives from Image Files

July 11, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Creating Bootable USB Drives from Image Files Purpose CD/DVD image files provide a way to replicate to bootable media. This will cover the steps in creating bootable USB devices from CD/DVD images. Details Image files typically are ISO types, but can be IMG or other types of files. These files contain the data and boot loader information that are required for CD/DVD and USB media to boot. Download the latest Clonezilla ISO from the vendor’s website, http://clonezilla.org/ I’ll cover methods…

Clonezilla System Imaging – Disaster Recovery

July 4, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Purpose Provide a disaster recovery and system deployment method that is cross platform and location independent. Details Clonezilla is a drive media imaging tool. It can create images from media, such as hard disks, USB thumb drives, MicroSD cards, etc. The disk images it creates can be saved locally or to network attached storage. Clonezilla is a boot environment, meaning it allows for more control of local storage that would normally be mounted. It can also load these images on…

WordPress Disaster Recovery

June 27, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction WordPress sites have been hacked and hijacked. Having the ability to recover from such an event can be critical. The recreation of content by other means may not be possible. This is why establishing a disaster recovery policy is important. More importantly, the policy must be put into practice. In this document, I’ll cover the creation of a disaster recover policy and the steps involved in following through with the policy. Creating a backup This should be done as…