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…
Raspberry Pi: Installing, hardening and optimising Ubuntu 20.04 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…
Linux: Adding a GUI to headless/server installs
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…
Ubuntu: Fixing network interfaces not showing in GUI on Ubuntu Server
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…
