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Archive for September, 2009

Specifying a shared mount point in Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. One of the challenges I faced in configuring my new backup system on my Ubuntu Linux-based server was setting up my two external drives to mount at the same place in the filesystem. Why? Because the program I use to manage my backups, BackupPC, expects [...]

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Setting up LUKS encryption on USB drives

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Part of the “Upgraded Linux Backup” series.

After obtaining (and assembling) my new backup hardware my first order of business was to get the external hard drives formatted and set up with drive encryption. In Ubuntu, the easiest way to encrypt a whole drive is using LUKS – it is easily readable by most Linux computers and can even be set up on a Windows PC, if absolutely necessary. This post will walk through the (remarkably simple) process of setting up encryption and formatting for most any USB flash or hard drive

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