If you use a small PC as Home Server NAS with a attached USB Drive you perhaps remark that the drive ALWAYS spinning if the Samba Daemon is active. I researched this behavior and found out that the Samba Deamon (smbd) locks the drive access via VFS to the Kernel for the Powermanagement Tools like […]
Kategorie: Backup
Linux: find files modified in special Month
If you want to free space on Backups you can use find to select a special month: find -newerct "1 Sep 2023" ! -newerct "1 DEC 2023" -delete This command removes files created from 01.Sep.2023 to 01.Dec.2023. ..very useful..
Seafile Photo Cloud Server Problems (must KNOW)
If you plan to setup a small private Photo Cloud Server and you try to setup „Seafile Community Edition“ there are some MAJOR Points (disadvantages) to know: Seafile Community Edition has limited Functions (5 Users) The Photo Files saved on „Data Blocks Files“ like on „IPFS“ with hash Keys as Names You need a MYSQL […]
Split Files on embedded Linux Systems
If you run a embedded Linux PC like raspi often some Linux Commands fail without error messages, cause the hardware performance is low tech. Same i have seen on the split command.. to split a 50GB Photos-Archive File to 4Gb on a USB Drive i found out that: sudo split -b 4096m -d -u Photos.tgz […]
FastGlacier Client on Linux AWS Cloud Backup
If you are a Newbie on AWS Glacier Cloud Backup you want to use a simple Backup Uploader you can use FastGlacier inside Wine! Major Info: Glacier puts only Files up to 4GB size, split 50GB Tar/Zip Files to 4GB!! Setup AWS free Account !! Go to IAM create User, set User Role to Glacier […]
Backup daily WordPress Drupal Script
If you use Drupal or WordPress and you have a virtual Server with SSH Login you should set up a daily Backup Script to have a Snapshot of your Blogs if Hackers insert SQL Code Injections or hack PHP Sites. Cause you cant NEVER know every EXPLOIT of every used Plugin (here less plugins is […]
MediaWiki: Purge All Users hold Page Content
If you use MediaWiki to hold your Infos, you perhaps want to Mirror the wiki to other Locations or drop all Users but hold the Content? You can do it with onboard tools: On the Source: Login into the Console of the Webserver go to /webspace/wiki/maintenance run here: php dumpBackup.php –full > backup.xml tar or […]
PDF/A: Setup Linux CUPS to Print Archive PDF/A
If you have a Office and you have to archive Documents and Prints over Years you should have heard that there is a special PDF Type called PDF/A which is set as default Archiving PDF File Type for decades. To use it you can use the Linux Print Server called CUPS to translate all digital […]