Linux | Stumbling into Abundance

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 ...

New Backup Hardware: Drives, Enclosures, and Controller Card 2

Aug

2009

This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. Before I get to what my new backup hardware consists of, it might be helpful to know a bit about my existing (old) setup. My home network consists of a workstation, a laptop, a netbook, a seldom-used garage PC, and a multipurpose server. Among it’s ...

Upgraded Linux Backup 2

Aug

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 ...

Linux – A Social Justice Issue 5

Jun

2008

For those of you that might not know, I use Ubuntu Linux on all the computers at my house (4 total.) I’ll be the first one to admit that I self-identify as a “geek.” I’ve literally grown up with computers. Not only in the sense that I’ve always been around them, but also that they ...