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Restic & incron/inotify, continuous backup on folder content change
Restic is a cross platform “Fast, secure, efficient backup program, Free Software (not just Open Source)”, as the developers says and I&...
How to copy a bootable large disk to a smaller disk
In Linux, cloning a disk (USB/SSD/HDD) is really simple, using dd utility we can make identical copies of one disk to another disk. Basi...
Pop!_OS & macOS, dual boot, same HDD, UEFI Only
Using the Ubuntu based distros (Pop!_OS in my case) give us some sort of magic powers, otherwise hard or even impossible to be obtained ...
Pop! _OS 19.04 released, upgrade and expectations
A (very) short history Pop!_OS 19.04 is the latest release of a great Linux distribution provided by System76. I'm using it on my ...
Watch Netflix on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 using Kodi and LibreELEC
Kodi is a well-known media center that can be deployed on various hardware, including ARM devices. For Raspberry Pi (2), Kodi is deliver...
Ubuntu, data encryption and backup, the right way
This article is about how to backup an Ubuntu based workstation, if this is what you are looking for, keep reading. The backup procedure wo...
Launch Thunderbird minimized at the Ubuntu startup
If you want that you preffered email client, Thunderbird, to be launched at Ubuntu startup, it's simple. But what if you want that Thun...
Ubuntu, incremental encrypted backup into the cloud
Why do we need backup should not be a question, but this is a quick answer for my situation: - I need to easily revert to a previous versio...
WebH-NL - a quick do it yourself web hosting solution
A half hour from zero to a fast, secure and reliable Debian 9 web hosting stack The WebH-NL stack objectives: timer fast loading time f...
How to ssh into google compute engine using Putty
You have already known about the Google Cloud Computing and his Compute Engine VMs (VM Instances), the easiest way to start your VPSs wi...
Monitorix: a lightweight solution to monitor webhosting
In my searches for an opensource solution to monitor the webhosting server, I found a few, and the Monitorix project was the chosen one, bec...
NGINX, Apache and NodeJS socket.io, all in harmony
You already know about the NodeJS and all his goodies. But you're a PHP web developer and is not easy for you to make the complete switc...
Hight quality free HTTPS encryption for your site using Let's Encrypt and nginx
For some time now, I protected my sites using a free StartSSL certificate from StartCom. But due some problems or misunderstandings, my free...