Back up XenServer 6 to Network Share with Fancy Scripting and Lots of Fun and No Downtime.

I have been using XenServer now for a few years. I was using Hyper-V and VMware, but I inherited a bunch of VMs on a few XenServer hosts and decided I would just work with Xen and see how I like it. I’ve gained a love/hate relationship with XenServer. But for the love, I can […]


Barracuda Backup 390 BIOS Password and Flashers

So I have this Barracuda Backup 390 unit. Their support is so terrible that it drives me crazy. My plan was to image the machine for recovery, format, install freeNAS, and smoke a pipe to celebrate. The only problem was the BIOS password prevented me from doing any config in the BIOS. My thought was, […]