December 2010 Entries

Using Amahi: Installing Subversion and Migrating Repositories

Since all my code is stored in Subversion, which is currently installed on Windows Home Server, I had to check how to install a Subversion server on Amahi server and how to migrate all my repositories there. The installation is pretty straight forward, everything is done form command line. 1. Install subversion: yum install subversion 2. For some reason SQLite was outdated for me, so verify that you have the latest version: yum update sqlite 3. Create a root folder for all your repositories. It can be any name and any location. I choose to...

Using Amahi: Recovering from non-system disk failure

Brief overview: this is about Linux Home Server, called Amahi, which I’m trying to figure out whether it suits my needs and I can migrate to it from Windows Home Server. Currently, the server is installed in VIrtualBox. The task: simulate an unrecoverable hard disk failure of one of non-system disks. E.g. one of the disks that contain your data and participate in mirroring, managed by Greyhole. Environment: VirtualBox with Fedora 12 and Amahi on top. 3 hard disks attached to the virtual machine. One is system disk, second and...