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  • 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…

  • Rsync Backup System [1]: Introduction

    In February of last year I was looking for a new backup solution (I had used rsync to that point but found some issues with it) and tried a few different things. I have been using rdiff-backups since then (it comes as a part of Debian) but this has its issues too. At the moment…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [1]

    In my last post I waxed lyrical about the merits of the Linux file system and how it is possible to have two swap partitions. Today I am setting up just that in my computer. It has an existing SSD with 100 GB available for swap, and due to an upgrade on the other computer,…

  • Linux has the best filesystem ever 🙂

    I’ve been in the IT industry for something like 30 years (longer if I was to include the time in my secondary education) and in that time I have used a few operating systems, starting with Apple DOS 3.3, UCSD P-System, CP/M, Acorn MOS, Macintosh System 6/7, Netware, MS-DOS, Windows (since 3.1), macOS and Linux.…

  • Python Scripting [6D]: Layer Sidecar Duplication & Renaming for NZ Rail Maps 4

    Since we last looked at this topic a couple of months have gone by with everything working as expected when the duplicate script is used, both for duplicating sidecar files for layers that are the same size as the original and ones where the destination layer has been increased in size. The former is the…