RSRaza Shaikhintechnokraft.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 6 min readOpenShift Tutorial: Core Concepts, Architecture & Deployment GuideThis comprehensive openshift tutorial explores the powerful container orchestration platform that extends Kubernetes with enterprise-ready features. OpenShift streamlines application deployment and ma00
SSanthoshinprogrammerzero.hashnode.dev·Aug 17 · 14 min readWho's Eating My Disk? A Windows Shadow Copy InvestigationOn a lazy Sunday afternoon, like any other engineer, I was doing random things on my machine. That's when I noticed my disk space was almost full. I was like, how did this happen?? and started digging00
GAGary Austininthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev·Aug 16 · 5 min readYour Backups Are a Hypothesis: The 45-Minute Restore TestThe green checkmark problem Every MSP dashboard has one: the backup column, green for months. Green feels like safety. But a green job proves exactly one thing — the job ran. It does not prove the dat00
JTJeff Thomsoninarysontechnologies.hashnode.dev·Aug 11 · 8 min readBackup IMAP Email Locally: A Complete Email Backup GuideUser Query (from a Spiceworks thread): "My IMAP inbox is getting close to its storage limit and I don't fully trust the provider's own backup. Is there a way to download all my IMAP emails to my compu00
RBRyan Beglauinryanoninfrastructure.hashnode.dev·Jul 29 · 8 min readIf Your Admin Can Delete the Backups, You Do Not Have BackupsRansomware operators routinely target backup infrastructure. Immutability keeps a compromised administrator account from wiping out the copies you need to recover. Here is how it works, and how to tel00
JTJakson Tateinservermo.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 9 min readZero-Trust Encrypted Backups with Restic on Ubuntu 24.04Data preservation layouts are no longer just an exercise in handling routine disk failures; they are a direct line of defense in an active cyber-warfare environment. Far too many system administrators00
JLJeremy Longshoreinjeremylongshore.hashnode.dev·Jul 20 · 10 min readA Green Recovery Drill Can Still Be LyingWe had a backup mechanism for a SigNoz staging stack. What we did not have was a proven restore. Those are different claims, and the gap between them is where outages become permanent. SigNoz is open-00
RBRyan Beglauinryanoninfrastructure.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 7 min readWhen Ransomware Hits, the District StopsA recovery playbook for schools and local government. Backups are not the plan. This is the sequence that gets identity, phones, payroll, transportation, and critical services back online in hours ins00
Aandreasgreiffintrialandsucceed.hashnode.dev·Jul 13 · 8 min readHow to make an encrypted backup to a Nextcloud instance on a daily basisAs I installed Fedora on my laptop, I was thinking about my current backup strategy and ways to improve it. Until that time, I had done an rsync-based copy to an external drive on a more or less weekl00
SCSam Critchleyinauthagonal.hashnode.dev·Jul 12 · 4 min readYour backup quietly resurrects the users you deletedEvery incremental backup makes the same quiet assumption: to back up what changed, find the rows that changed. On a key-value store like Azure Table Storage or DynamoDB, "what changed" means "rows who00
