The Lytning Blog!#
This is where I write about any topics of interest to me, in the hope that I can document them before I forget or get distracted with other things.
Hopefully, these will prove to be of interest to others too.
Recent blog posts#
✉Alerts & Notifications - SMTP Relay✉ - 2024-01-01
992 words | 5 min read
I run various services on my network, including - as you may have shrewdly deduced by now - Bacula.
🦇Bacula - Install Bacularis UI🦇 - 2023-12-10
801 words | 4 min read
In the previous article, we configured the the File Daemons on 2 client computers. We also configured the Bacula Director to backup these 2 clients, and successfully executed the backups.
🦇Bacula - Install & configure (Conclusion)🦇 - 2023-11-24
1178 words | 6 min read
In the previous article, we configured the Bacula Director and the File Daemon on the Bacula server (server01), and ran a backup job to backup the Bacula server itself.
🦇Bacula - Install & configure (Part-2)🦇 - 2023-11-18
1303 words | 7 min read
We configured the Bacula Director, Storage Daemon and the Disk autochanger (vchanger) in the previous article.
🦇Bacula - Install & configure (Part-1)🦇 - 2023-11-15
1341 words | 7 min read
We looked at some Bacula concepts and terminology in the previous article. We also laid out our plan for installing the various components of Bacula in the Bacula Schematic Diagram. We will continue to refer to it as we go along.
🦇Bacula - Concepts and Terminology🦇 - 2023-11-12
543 words | 3 min read
In the previous article, I briefly touched upon Bacula and my reasons for selecting it as my backup tool of choice.
🦇Bacula - An introduction🦇 - 2023-11-11
496 words | 2 min read
Good reliable backups are critical to reducing system down-time, loss of data, productivity and real $$$ (or €€€ or any other currency). There is many a story of companies going out of business and people losing jobs due to bad or non-existent backups. And for many businesses (e.g. FDA-regulated organizations), having backups - for several years too! - is a legal and regulatory requirement.
Automount USB disks in Linux - 2023-11-11
227 words | 1 min read
I installed Ubuntu server 23.10 on one of my computers very recently, and ran into a surprising problem that…in 2023, USB mounting and unmounting does not happen automatically in Linux.
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