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  • Rsync Backup System [5]: Ongoing Backup Journey

    Since writing the first four articles on this topic, I have not yet figured out how to implement an incremental backup strategy, and so I am still doing only the full backup every few months. Hence right now I am doing my first full backup of mainpc for three months. The first issue that has…

  • Change Monitor Configurations Permanently in LXQt for Screen Recording

    As we have discussed in the past, I use LXQt in two different configurations with my various computers. Lubuntu, which now uses LXQt as its desktop environment, is what most of my non-desktop computers use. For example a media playback computer and a laptop are normally set up with Lubuntu which is quick and easy…

  • Using a Raspberry Pi as a livestream player [1]

    When I wrote the first post of this series I fully expected using my former Windows 10 PC as a home theater PC would work out. That didn’t last long and the Windows 10 part was soon moved to another computer so the Mini-ITX system could be reinstalled with Lubuntu for the specific role that…

  • Rsync Backup System [4]: Linux File and Directory Security Using ACLs

    As per our series on Rsync backups, we desire to use a different user from the one that owns the home directory in order to ensure they have only the permissions they need when logging in remotely. At this point whilst by default the backup user could access many things on the computer, there were…

  • Rsync Backup System [3]: Using Rsync For Full Backup

    So last time we talked about how to set up a single disk with ZFS to use compression. Having got our backup disks sorted, the next step is to work out how to use rsync to do the actual backups. rsync is written by the same people that devised samba and is a very powerful…

  • HOWTO: Set font size in virtual consoles

    In Debian you can have virtual terminal consoles, which are different from a terminal emulator window. Before Buster came along, a lot of commands could be run in a terminal emulator, but these days, more often than not, commands have to be run in a virtual console instead. The difference is that a virtual console…

  • Rsync Backup System [2]: Using ZFS For Compressed Backup Disks

    So last time I talked briefly about ideas for using Rsync to do my backups. Over time this will gel into a whole lot of stuff like specific scripts and so on. Right now there will be a few different setup steps to go through. The first stage is to come up with a filesystem…

  • How to create a desktop menu entry manually in Linux

    This is kind of an odd thing to be posting about nowadays with Linux desktops mostly including a menu editor or installable third party packages like menulibre and alacarte being able to achieve the same outcome. However, LXQt does not include a menu editor that is comparable to the above options, and whilst both of…

  • Using a Windows 10 computer as a media player

    UPDATE 19-10-7: Due to cost the Win10PC was put into an old obsolete chassis and parked in a corner of the room so it can be used when needed but it will not sit on my desk and will hardly ever be used. This was accomplished using an identical spare G-E350 WIN8 mainboard and the…

  • How to PERMANENTLY disable an input device in Linux (Xorg Display Server)

    About 2 months ago I posted on how to use the xinput command (on Ubuntu and derivatives) to disable an input device. This, however, only works until the next time the computer is restarted. In addition, not all distros provide the xinput command; Debian doesn’t, and I haven’t done any research to determine whether this…