Topics: CentOS

Parallel rsync allows you to copy with multiple threads so it can work on different files at the same time. The Parameter “P” sets the number of threads ls -1 $LOCAL_DIR | xargs -I {} -P 5 -n 1 rsync -avh –progress $LOCAL_DIR/{} $RECV_DIR -P sets number of parallel threads Example: ls -1 /mnt/mylocalfiles/ | […]

To identify where your drives are located when using the Rocket750 cards use the Highpoint webGUI and the following diagram. For example, as seen in the screenshot below, In the Highpoint WebGUI under Physical->Devices you can see all the drives numbered the same way as they are in the wiring diagram below. Note circled in […]

How do I know one of my boot drives has failed? Open the Disk Utility and scroll down to your RAID devices. If one of them has failed you will see DEGRADED. Alternately you may open a terminal and enter the command “cat /proc/mdstat” This will list the current status of all RAIDs you have […]

The recommended utility to use with the LSI 9361 SAS card is StorCLI. StorCLI allows command line tools to manage and control LSI MegaRAID controllers. It can be downloaded at –> https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12351376 Once the rpm package is downloaded, extract it to a directory on your Storinator. From there, changing into that director and run the […]

Scope/Description This guide will show you how to install and start the Highpoint WebUI for Rocket 750 HBA cards Prerequisites A server with the highpoint HBA driver installed Steps First, make sure wget is installed Centos/Rocky yum install wget -y dnf install wget -y Ubuntu apt install wget -y Now we can download the WebUI […]

Scope/Description This article details the process of changing your OS from FreeNAS to Ubuntu/CentOS. It includes the process of importing the pool and making necessary changes. Prerequisites A FreeNas pool configured and Houston running on CentOS7/Ubuntu 20.04 Steps FreeNAS System Take note of everything configured (Share, Groups-Users, IPs) Export the pool through the Web UI […]

Scope/Description In this article, we’ll install and configure a Postgresql Server on CentOS 7 for use with DaVinci Resolve Prerequisites CentOS 7 Client with DaVinci Resolve Steps To begin, we’ll have to install the postgresql server on our CentOS 7 server. We can do this with “yum install postgresql postgresql-server” [root@45drives~]# yum install postgresql postgresql-server […]

Scope/Description How to repair a CentOS installation that is stuck booting into GRUB.   Prerequisites A unit that is unable to properly boot into CentOS Access to the IPMI management port on the 45 Drives unit Java installed for ISO mounting ISO for the matching version of CentOS 7 downloaded   Steps Open the Java […]

Scope/Description This article will show how to identify what slot on each controller translates to a physical port on LSI 9305 16i Controllers. Prerequisites System running a Linux OS Having LSI 9305-16i Controller cards installed Steps Below is a chart on how each physical port translates to a slot number in the drive bay area: […]

Due to a library incompatibility with the new CentOS update please follow the below steps to install the Rocket 750 Driver:   Download and Unzip: wget http://images.45drives.com/r750drivers/Linux/R750_v1.2.7_linux.tar.gz tar -xvzf R750_v1.2.7_linux.tar.gz ./r750-linux-src-v1.2.7-16_08_23.bin   Make the following file: vim fixcompissue.sh   Enter the following in the text file: echo “This script tried to declare driver license from Proprietary […]