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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 the storage [...]

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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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Part of the “Upgraded Linux Backup” series. Here’s a brief overview of my old backup hardware, my goals for the new system, and the hardware I purchased to reach those goals. I’m using BackupPC software on an Ubuntu server, and this new hardware is doing great thus far!

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Upgraded Linux Backup

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

After taking a couple weeks to upgrade my home network backup system I feel I’ve learned some lessons that some other folks might benefit from. So many lessons, in fact, that one blog post seems inadequate to contain them all. With that in mind, I’m going to be authoring a series on all the steps along the way.

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