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Setup Urbackup server on Ubuntu Overview The following post will showcase the steps how to setup Urbackup server on Ubuntu. By this we mean that we’ll be install Urbackup server on Ubuntu and also, we’ll show to add a client on the server and how to run a backup job. UrBackup is an Open Source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups features, differential backups and other tools can do various backup jobs while the system is running without interrupting current processes. ...

Install NFS server on Rocky linux 8[NFS share mount] Overview The post will showcase the steps how to install NFS server on Rocky linux. On another post, we covered the other method as well where we showed the process mounting the network shared drive on Linux, but with this method we used cifs-utils tools(LINK). The principle behind this process is basically the same - mount a network shared folder or drive from another machine and access it via local network. ...

Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to Install OpenVPN server on Rocky Linux 8. OpenVPN is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario of our process on how to install OpenVPN server is going to be performed as following: Deployed Rocky Linux 8 machine with firewall. We’ll be using an OpenVPN installation script from Github made by angristan(huge shutout and kudos to him for making such an amazing script). The Installation process done manually is not difficult, it actually requires many steps and can be time consuming(especially if you miss-configured a step which can consume more time by troubleshooting). For the simplicity and ease of setup we’re using the angristan’s script(big thanks to him for sharing the script). Another interesting method of deploying OpenVPN server is via Docker container. The process can be looked at this post - LINK. ...

Setup OpenVPN server on Ubuntu Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to setup OpenVPN server on Ubuntu. OpenVPN is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario of our process on how to install OpenVPN server on Ubuntu is going to be performed as following: Deployed Ubuntu Linux machine with firewall(you can use UFW or IPTABLES. IPTABLES is used in this example). We’ll be using an OpenVPN installation script from Github made by angristan(huge shutout and kudos to him for making such an amazing script). The Installation process done manually is not difficult, it actually requires many steps and can be time consuming(especially if you miss-configured a step which can consume more time by troubleshooting). For the simplicity and ease of setup we’re using the angristan’s script(big thanks to him for sharing the script). Another interesting method of deploying OpenVPN server is via Docker container. The process can be looked at this post - LINK. ...

Overview This post will showcase the steps how to setup NFS server on Ubuntu. On another post, we covered the other method as well where we showed the process mounting the network shared drive on Linux, but with this method we used cifs-utils tools(LINK). The principle behind this process is basically the same - mount a network shared folder or drive from another machine and access it via local network. ...

How to Install Wireguard on Debian Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to install Wireguard on Debian(this procedure works on Debian 10 and also on Debian 11). Wireguard is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario of our process on how to install Wireguard server is going to be performed as following: Deployed Debian 10(Debian 11) Linux machine with firewall(you can use UFW or IPTABLES. IPTABLES is used in this example). We’ll be using a Wireguard installation script from Github made by angristan. The Installation process done manually is not difficult but it can be time consuming(especially if you miss-configured a step which can consume more time by troubleshooting). For the simplicity and ease of setup we’re using the angristan’s script(big thanks to him for sharing the script). Small side note - Besides this method, we also covered the procedure where install Wireguard server using Docker, which can be checked out on this post. ...

Install Wordpress with remote database on Debian Overview In the following post we’ll cover the scenario where we’re going to install Wordpress with remote database on Debian. In other words, we’ll have an environment were we will have two separate servers, one which will have only Wordpress installation(meaning it will host the website only) and the other will have only the database(act only as a database server). There are many beneficial reasons why this kind of environment is setup - one being the ease of website maintenance and database maintenance, performance increase(meaning the wordpress since it’s not dependent on one server, it will take much less resources). ...

How to install Webmin on Debian Overview This post will cover the procedure on how to install Webmin on Debian(this procedure works on Debian 10 and on Debian 11 as well). This method can also be applied on earlier versions of Debian( like 9 and 8) and on other Debian based distros such as Ubuntu. Webmin is a web based system configuration and management tool for Unix based systems. Meaning, that with it you can do the management on all your Linux servers. ...