I recently got myself into a little bit of trouble when I ran some buggy code against a database. It was for a personal project to develop my skills with the Flask framework so I was being quite lax with testing. To cut a long story short, functionality which was designed to make…

Traditionally tape drives have been used to ensure a company has offsite backups, however, with the relatively recent explosion of cloud services, and higher bandwidth Internet connectivity, it is now much more common to push your offsite backups through the WAN. Further, with…

With release of PowerShell 5 in Server 2016 and Windows 10 adding custom classes has been made simpler with the new Class functionality, however, for those of us working on older versions we need to resort to the old way of embedding C#. For the sake of keeping examples simple…

The following configuration will allow a Cisco 800 series to be used as a modem, with authentication and other functionality offloaded to another device.

High speed WAN services differ from the typical xDSL connection in that they terminate on either Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet ports. This can also be the case with xDSL services on routers which do not have ATM ports and instead bridge to an external modem. The issue with…

Plugging in a PoE phone into a Catalyst 3550 results in the phone not powering up and the following being logged in the console. The fix is to delay the switch shutting down the interface, which gives the phone enough time to activate the link. The following is required under the…

I’ve been doing a large amount amount of work with NFS clients and severs over the past few days and thought it may be wise to note down some useful commands. For reference, the NFS Server is Windows Server 2012 R2 and the client is CentOS 7. To view NFS exports on a server To…

Quick snippet for manually backing up and restoring a MySQL / MariaDB database. Backup Restore