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Specifying a shared mount point in Ubuntu 1

Sep

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 ...

Setting up LUKS encryption on USB drives 2

Sep

2009

This post is part of my 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. Since I’m swapping out one drive to store off-site I wanted to use drive encryption just in case ...