All servers flooded by salt water, is it possible to recover data from multi-platter drives?

I almost cringe to do this, but if you’re serious about recovering your data, and you don’t have backups, you’ll need a higher-end data recovery service. Watch out for fly-by-nights shops that will be peddling/scamming in your area, and go with an actual top-tier data recovery service. (And be prepared to pay $$$$ for it.) … Read more

Find the location of a systemd unit file service

For units that are defined in actual, static files, this can be seen in systemctl status: $ systemctl status halt-local.service ● halt-local.service – /usr/sbin/halt.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/halt-local.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) But there are units that are not defined by files, e.g. with systemd-cron installed. These have no useful location listed with status: $ … Read more

Cheat Sheets for System Administrators?

I add my own favorite: Cheat Sheets on PacketLife.com has some very nice ones on network technology topics. Cheat sheets are in PDF format. You are welcome to use and redistribute them as you please, so long as they remain intact and unmodified. Currently there are six categories: Protocols: BGP, EIGRP, First Hop Redundancy, IEEE … Read more