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  • Faster file transfer on Windows | Robocopy

    Faster file transfer on Windows | Robocopy

    In Windows, when you want to transfer files from a place to another you usually use the standard Copy/Paste/Move process, but it comes with a downside, it only use one thread on your system which is insane on an recent operating system, now mainly used on multi-threaded systems. Depending on your system, the read/write performance…

  • Install / Recover Iomega ix4-200d firmware

    Install / Recover Iomega ix4-200d firmware

    You may have accidentally erased your whole NAS drives or just been a victim of a software bug, but for a  reason or another your Iomega NAS may have lost his firmware. On theses devices, the firmware is located on the installed drives, not in an integrated flash memory on the device, so if you…

  • Nextcloud Cron Setup

    Nextcloud Cron Setup

    You may have encountered the following warning after a Nextcloud install or you may even never seen it but Nextcloud need to execute some background tasks regularly to insure it’s good working condition. Some cleanups need to be executed on a daily basis. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check your Nextcloud application…

  • Deploy Windows updates with WSUS

    Deploy Windows updates with WSUS

    In this article we are gonna setup a WSUS server to manage & accelerate the update process of Windows based computers. What is a WSUS Server ? WSUS stand for « Windows Server Update Services », it allows the centralization of Windows updates for an organization by downloading every selected updates from Microsoft on a local server,…

  • Fixing Broken Nextcloud – MariaDB 10.X Upgrade

    Fixing Broken Nextcloud – MariaDB 10.X Upgrade

    As a classic HomeLab enjoyer I self-host most of the stuff I use daily. But few days ago while maintaining my Nextcloud instance, I updated Nextcloud & MariaDB to catch up on the latest patches. Unfortunately, my docker install was unable to start properly again and I was greeted by the following error : So…