Category: NZTekonverse -> Storage
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…