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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…

Windows 3.11 on Raspberry Pi 3

June 20, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Running Windows 3.11 on a Raspberry Pi can be done using emulation. This will cover how to use an emulation utilitiy called DosBox. This post (https://youtu.be/idHQk99E4VA), from Christopher Barnatt inspired me to dust off my old floppy disks and give it a go. You can find more here as well, http://explainingcomputers.com/ Sourcing Windows 3.11 can be challenging. I have 6 install disks that were part of my college computer, an AST i486SX 33Mhz CPU with 8MB of ram and a…