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Thoughts from Kevin Veen-Birkenbach


  • January 12, 2021

    Software RAID1

    Software RAID1

    is a system to prevent data lost by mirroring two storage devices. In my opinion it should be a part of a server data backup strategy. I have much experiences with setting up software RAID1’s. In the most of the cases I use a which mirrors the devices of an physical cluster. A repositories which… Continue reading

    Backups & RAID
    Btrfs, Physical RAID, RAID, RAID0, RAID1, server data backup strategy, Software RAID
  • January 12, 2021

    Online Shop Programming

    Online Shop Programming

    For a coding challenge I programmed once an almost framework less online shop in a short time frame by using full stack technologies. As I used . The back-end is programmed with and the dependencies are managed with . On the front-end side , , , and are used. The code quality was improved by… Continue reading

    Uncategorized
    back-end, Bootstrap, composer, front-end, full stack, HTML, Javascript, JQuery, MySQL, Online Shop, php, PHPUnit, Programming
  • January 12, 2021

    Server Storage Encryption

    Server Storage Encryption

    I’m experienced in setting up encrypted server systems. This includes the encryption of the storage device and the encryption of the communication. The storage encryption I manage via . A decryption is possible over and . An example server configuration can be found in the following repository: https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks Continue reading

    Uncategorized
    Dropbear, encryption, LUKS, Server Enryption, SSH, Storage Encryption
  • December 26, 2020

    How to Manage Backups of Dedicated Root Servers

    In this article I give an overview over one possibility how to manage backups of dedicated root servers. This article is not supposed to guide one through all steps. Instead the goal is to present a concept. Servers One of my backup setups consist out of two servers running with Arch Linux. Both servers run… Continue reading

    Uncategorized
    Backup, Btrfs, RAID, RAID1, RAID10, Root Dedicated Server
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