In this post, I am setting up a Time Capsule and Backintime server. I am using a Raspberry Pi that has Ubuntu installed, with a USB disk that has been configured into a ZFS pool. Setting up backup users You are going to have to create users for each of the services/users that will be… Read More: Raspberry Pi : Configuring a Time Capsule/Backintime server »
I have been trying to document the process of configuring a Raspberry Pi as a Time Machine Capsule, but the article became far too long. It covered far too much information and was really hard to read. I then decided to break the stages into more manageable steps. This has the advantage of allowing the… Read More: Raspberry Pi: Installing, hardening and optimising Ubuntu 20.04 Server »
Server and minimal installs are normally headless and have no graphical interface. If needed you can add a GUI manually. The process is slightly different depending on the distro. RedHat / CentOS 7.x RedHat / CentOS 8.x Ubuntu 18.04.x LTS Debian 9.x Debian 10.x All the above distros use systemd as their init system and… Read More: Linux: Adding a GUI to headless/server installs »
Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop use different network managers. Ubuntu Server uses networkd which doesn’t have a GUI component. So after adding a desktop to Ubuntu Server you won’t be able to see or change the configuration via the GUI by default. Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu Server Configuration tool netplan netplan CLI manager nmcli networkd GUI… Read More: Ubuntu: Fixing network interfaces not showing in GUI on Ubuntu… »
