Author Archives: Jon Smith

Fixed: Location Based Reminders Not Available in iOS 5

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Jon Smith

If you are having troubles finding location based reminders on your iOS 5 device you are probably using an Exchange based email account. If you have an Exchange account setup on your iPhone or iPad the new reminders app in … Continue reading →

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Commvault Simpana 9.0 with Granular File Recovery for Linux under VMWare

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Jon Smith

I am currently going through the process of installing a brand new Commvault installation. One thing I am evaluating is doing most of my backups via the Virtual Server iDataAgent, this will give me “bare metal” recovery of my VM’s … Continue reading →

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FOG: Deleting all current active tasks

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jon Smith

FOG is “a free computer cloning solution” found at http://www.fogproject.org/. If your a seasoned user you will no doubt have groups setup so you may run commands on multiple machine without loading each one individually. In my scenario we have … Continue reading →

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Updated snapadm.pl file for ZFS Snapshots

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Jon Smith

In my post OpenSolaris Backup Solution with Rsync and ZFS Snapshots I provided a link to a script from Sun – snapadm.pl. I found a bug where if you were using the recursive function then the old snapshots would never … Continue reading →

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