Mdadm is used in most Linux distributions to manage software raid where the server does not have or use a hardware raid controller This page will show some of the common commands and usages of mdadm. The bellow use RAID1 as an example, but can be modified for any raid level you are using.

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What is Swappiness

Swappiness has a value between 1 and 100 this controls how your system prioratises ram and swap usage, if you are unsure of what swap is then you may want to google this a bit but in short ram is the physical memory modules (ram) and swap is memory on your hard drive/ssd, swap i...

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I am going to show you a quick way to move your databases to a new server in this scenario this is for a database server upgrade with as little downtime as possible with complete new hardware.

The first thing to do is login to your existing mysql server and make sure you have your root login detai...

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Logs are really handy when troubleshooting or simply trying to monitor usage of an application the downside to keeping logs is t...

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Just for those of of that have had to replace a disk on a server or simply expand the storage space this include when you swap a...

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