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Every so often I want to migrate a server "whole", as if I were pulling the disk out of the old server and plugging it into the new one. This is not only very convenient (no need …

w is a very helpful command-line tool for a quick overview of which users are currently logged in and what they are doing.

I recently rented a small storage VPS at Contabo. On my request (left as a comment during the order) it was provisioned in Munich, giving me a reasonable level of geo-redundancy …

A snapshot is an image of a disk or a system captured at a specific point in time. Depending on the environment, snapshots can be taken "online" (while the system is running) or …

While reviewing logs from various Docker containers I ran into an issue: some containers were running with the host's local timezone (CET), others with UTC. While debugging I even …