Notes from the racks
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7 articles
Storage/
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Moving 40 TB into object storage without a maintenance window
Two sync passes, a checksum verification and a DNS flip — the migration order that moves a large bucket with no downtime and no lost writes.
Sep 3, 2026
Storage/
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Serving a video library from object storage and a CDN
Where to cache, what to sign and how to keep origin traffic predictable when a growing video catalogue is served from object storage.
Sep 3, 2026
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Designing a retention policy that survives an audit
How long to keep backups and logs, what to place beyond reach of an administrator, and what longer retention actually costs.
Sep 3, 2026
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Growing a database volume without downtime
Resize the volume, extend the partition, grow the filesystem, verify — the order that avoids an outage, and the two steps people skip.
Sep 2, 2026
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A snapshot strategy that survives a real incident
How often to snapshot, how long to keep them, what snapshots do not protect you from, and when to reach for Veeam instead.
Sep 2, 2026
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Block storage or object storage: which one for this data?
A decision guide based on access pattern, latency tolerance and how the data grows — with the three cases where the answer is both.
Sep 2, 2026
How-to/
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Persistent volumes on managed Kubernetes: what to use for what
Block, file and object storage in a cluster: which primitive fits which workload, the access-mode rules that surprise people, and the reclaim policy that deletes production data.
Aug 31, 2026
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