So, I’ve got a Debian NAS that had some spare resources – So, I thought I would migrate over my Unifi and UNMS systems. The OS I used for this setup was Debian 10 – With no additionall repositries – Just Samba, DNSMASQ for TFTP and Apache. To do this I simply followed the installation […]

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Recently I utilized a crontab to run a weekly backup job. This job, ran as a standard crontab user. The above backup job can be checked through /var/log/cron.log. Tip – Enable Cron Logging in Debian Enable Crontab logging to track when jobs and changes to crontab have been made. The location of the cron log […]

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Two commands come in useful when updating /etc/fstab to mount your partitions to your preferred locations. Recently though, I needed to map some drives on a non-gui machine so I didn’t have my-usual lifeline of a simple GUI disk manager. So, I found myself resorting to “lsblk -f” to show all drives and their UUID. […]

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Recently I’ve moved from utilising a Synology NAS for network storage to an old business class HP Desktop that’s been fitted out with some extra storage. I’ve installed Debian with no GUI to save on resources and presently using just 300MB of RAM while already running – TFTP, Samba and Apache. Below are the guides […]

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