Category Archives: Linux

Ideas and utilities for using and managing Linux

IPMI Configuration on Rocks Cluster

Posted on March 11, 2012 by James Rudd

The following is a step by step guide on setting up IPMI management on a Rocks Cluster. It is based on several great posts on Rocks Mailing list and Rocks userguide presentation Update: On Rocks Mailing list Philip Papadopoulos mentioned … Continue reading →

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Compilation notes for Rocks cluster

Posted on December 11, 2011 by James Rudd

This post is more to assist me when upgrading software on our Rocks cluster, but may be useful to others who are compiling similar software. Our cluster only has AMD nodes so we use PGI compilers. Also the backbone is … Continue reading →

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Papercut

Posted on August 16, 2010 by James Rudd

I have received a few questions asking about Papercut so here are some of the details about it and what we use it for. Papercut can run on a Windows Server (2003, 2008 or 2008 R2) using windows print queues … Continue reading →

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Using BackupPC with DiskShadow to backup open files

Posted on July 16, 2010 by James Rudd

This post is to assist in the setup of a BackupPC system able to backup in use files by using MS volume snapshots. It also has the benefit of only having the RSync daemon running during the backup which increases security. Continue reading →

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