The Home lab journey begins

Over the past 10+ years, I've been running a custom built PC at home which I must say has served me well. Although it still runs, it's old hardware and getting ready for retirement. For a while now I've been wanting to built my own home lab partly to consolidate and virtualise my hardware but... Continue Reading →

Veeam Fast Clone Space Savings Script

Some Background Since Veeam Backup & Replication version 10 we have been able to make use of Fast Clone, a technology which allows the referencing of existing data blocks on volumes instead of copying data blocks between files. Synthetic backups for example benefit massively from fast clone resulting in space savings on the backup repository... Continue Reading →

Automating my Coffee Fix!

During the pandemic, lockdown took away the one thing that gave me the ability to function in a morning - coffee! For what seemed the longest time, cafes were closed and it was practically impossible to get a takeaway coffee anywhere. No longer could I be without a flat white so I decided to buy... Continue Reading →

VeeamOn 2022

A few weeks back I received some exciting news - I had been given the opportunity to attend this years VeeamOn conference in Las Vegas as a VIP guest! Over the years I’ve heard great things about VeeamOn and although I was able to attend the past 2 events virtually due to the global pandemic,... Continue Reading →

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