2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage
Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
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Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files
Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware
Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure
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