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Storage should be boring. Boring is reliable. Reliable means you don't lose data. And that's exactly what t...
Since upgrading to Nextcloud 16 a few weeks ago I've not been able to get my desktop sync clients to work. The issue manifested itself as a 'login loop' where I would log in to a sync client, provide my 2FA token and then click grant access only to be promptly dumped back at the original login scr...
After attending Linuxfest Northwest 2019 where both Allan Jude and Jim Salter gave excellent talks about ZFS, I finally gave in and decided to implement ZFS on my server. I wonder if being a ZFS junkie is a TechSnap host pre-requisite? Here's a short article giving a ZFS 101 intro and list of comm...
I recently purchased a new UPS which has a USB interface, the APC BX1500M to be precise. After piecing together a few blog posts I had a working Grafana dashboard giving me information about the power consumption of the devices connected to the UPS. Nice.
That new hard drive. Should you trust it? Maybe.
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat y...
It's quite easy to get tied in knots when dealing with the early stages of an Arch install because you're offline. So what do you do about this? Get online ASAP. Sometimes via ethernet, sometimes WiFi is the only option. Here's a quick set of instructions including a couple of gotchas that might hel...
Today we will cover configuring a Linux system to boot using systemd boot on a UEFI system.
Firstly you'll need to check you're booted into EFI mode. You can do this with dmesg | grep "EFI v".
Sometimes it's possible to boot your system from legacy BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode - look for the...
Another Ansible top tip. Suppose you are running an installer or other process via Ansible which expects the user to be present accept a license agreement, enter some information or something. Enter expect, a handy little utility which can listen for certain strings in stdout and react accordingly...
Let's say you are in the midst of writing an Ansible playbook and you need to reference multiple values from an 'item' in different places. Here's a neat code snippet that will allow you to do just that.
hosts: all
vars:
file_path_1: /usr/bin
file_path_2: /example
file_path_3: /opt
tasks:...