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What can I say?! Rsync is awesome! The options I normally use for this is: The options above are explained below. -a –archive Archive mode. Same as -rlptgoD. -H –hard-links Preserve hard links. -A –acls […]
Snaps is a cross-platform; application, packaging and deployment system; created by Canonical and originally designed for Ubuntu. However, the snaps package manager is now available for most distributions, including Arch. All the application libraries are […]
Occasionally, when I need an application on Arch Linux that either isn’t available or is poorly maintained, I often find its available as a snapcraft/snaps package. Snaps packages are provides by Canonical and are intended […]
If you’re looking to do the same thing on Ubuntu 18.04 – checkout my previous post. Check the python version – hopefully you’ve got the latest 3.x version. Python2 is now deprecated but you’ll need […]
Here I demo encrypting home directories, post installation, using eCryptfs. It should be noted here that encrypting just your home directory is not recommended as it carries with it potential security risks. Any data outside […]
This is a handy command line tool that can calculate subnets for you. For example. It should be available in the community repository. If you’re using pamac, you can check with. And the install it […]
To install packages on the EOL Debian 7.8 (Wheezy), you need to amend your /etc/apt/sources.list. Add the following line. Refresh the repository cache. You should now be able to search for packages. Or install.
Following from a previous article where I demonstrated how to synchronise data to a remote host using lsyncd, this one with show how to deal with the below problem I faced. The problem I faced […]
Based on rsync, lsyncd is a demonised implementation that monitors for file modifications, and triggers a synchronisation if detected. Here I am using Ubuntu 18.04 at both ends but the process should pretty much be […]
The easiest way to reset the root users mysql password on most Debian systems is to use the debian-sys-maint user. The login details for which can be found below: With the password found in there, […]
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