Category Archives: JFF

(Solved) Buffalo Linkstation: Email notification using GMAIL

Email Notification You may set up email alerts for the following occurrences:. – HD Status Report – Fan errors – Disk errors – Backup Complete SMTP Server Enter the IP address and port number of your SMTP mail server. If no port number is entered, the default port 25 will be used. POP3 Server Many… Read More »

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Category: NAS

Buffalo Linkstation Hard Disk Recovery

This is not a complete step-by-step data recovery guide. Here I just listed all software needed during my successful recovery. 1. To fix GPT record, use TestDisk. 2. To read and reconstruct RAID, use UFS Explorer Professional Recovery. Notes: 1. Linkstation filesystem is XFS 2. Linkstation not using legacy MBR, instead it’s using GPT for… Read More »

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Category: NAS

Munin & munin-node

The following examples use these addresses: Munin server: 192.184.94.230 (ramnode.advanxer.com) Munin node 1: 192.210.208.175 (bluevm.advanxer.com) Munin node 2: 54.254.177.162 (ec2.advanxer.com) Server side configuration /etc/munin/munin.conf htmldir /usr/share/nginx/www/munin # a simple host tree [ramnode.advanxer.com] address 127.0.0.1 use_node_name yes [bluevm.advanxer.com] address 192.210.208.175 use_node_name yes [ec2.advanxer.com] address 54.254.177.162 use_node_name yes # port 4950 Munin node configuration /etc/munin/munin-node.conf host_name vps.advanxer.com… Read More »

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Buffalo Linkstation ACP Commander GUI

I stumbled upon a website where the author is generous enough to program a GUI for the acp commander. I haven’t tried yet since my NAS already rooted. I, without his permission “mirror’ his page for my future reference. Original link: http://www.gry.ch/Java/styled/ ACP Commander GUI is a Graphical User Interface using acp_commander developed by Georg from NAS-Central. ACP Commander… Read More »

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CloudFlare: Restore original visitor IP to Apache Web Servers

Since CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy for websites, CloudFlare’s IPs are going to show in your server logs. This can be easily identified from awstats or webalizer. There is an easy fix to restore original visitor IP for any web server. 1) Copy the source file mod_cloudflare.c to your web server. wget https://raw.github.com/cloudflare/CloudFlare-Tools/master/mod_cloudflare.c 2)… Read More »

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