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Right at the outset I want to say I’m quite new to ZFS at the time I write this so do your own homework. Anyway, I was trying to create a RAIDZ array on my test server which is currently…
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Flash Memory Plugin for OpenMediaVault
If you are installing OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi chances are you are running the operating system off an SD card. SD cards are great for read only access by they will quickly wear out and die if they get…
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Adding an Storage Drive and SMB Share to OpenMediaVault on Raspberry Pi
In an earlier article we installed OMV and did the most basic set up. In this article we’ll add a storage drive. This article assumes you have a Raspberry Pi 4 with OMV 6 installed and working correctly. We’ll be…
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Installing OpenMediaVault (OMV) on a Raspberry Pi
OpenMediaVault (OMV) is an open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. It ships as a distribution but you can also install just the packages if you have a suitable base system (Debian essentially) which is what we’ll be doing here.…
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Permanently Mount a Drive on Raspberry Pi
Working on your Raspberry Pi from the inserted SD card is fine for some applications but if you want to store a significant amount of data or perform more intensive IO operations then you’re going to need to attach an…
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Running Docker on a Raspberry Pi
Docker has, for a lot of cases, become the go to way to install and run certain services. Docker is a container system which means it comes with all the advantages of containers such as ease of installation, resource management…
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Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Raspberry Pi
In an earlier article I configured a Raspberry Pi to accept SSH logins using keys rather than passwords all the while working from a Windows 10 machine. In this article I’ll do the same but working from another Raspberry Pi…
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Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Windows
This guide assumes you have a Raspberry Pi already installed e.g. you can log in and see either a command prompt or the desktop. This guide will make use of the command line. I’m setting up a headless server as…
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Setting up a L2TP VPN on a MikroTik Router
I’m running a MikroTik RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT with a level 4 license. This set up should work on any level 3 or higher licensed version of RouterOS which I think is now all of them. I’m setting this up using WinBox,…
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Tabs Outliner Backup and Restore
I use a browser extension called Tabs Outliner and it’s absolutely great for organising your browsing. You can simply create a window full of tabs and close and then restore it later. I have literally thousands of tabs stored this…
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The Wonder that is FFmpeg
I’ve recently discovered FFmpeg and I’m absolutely blown away how good it is. In the past when I’ve had to encode video I’ve generally used Handbrake but at the end of the day this is just a wrapper over the…
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Making a Docker Container Use a VPN
A while back I wrote a post on routing all traffic through a VPN under Linux. The solution discussed in that post is fine if you are only dealing with regular applications but when you are dealing with containers the…