In this website you'll find some information about me, some tips&tricks and some software i worked on.
Having any number of disks connected to your system put you in charge of monitoring their health, acting in the right way when a disk is about to fail is crucial.
Making use of a tool that, when run on a scheduled basis, notify you on screen when a disk is not passing an healthcheck could prevent disaster from occurring.
Let's have a look at a script that could be used as a starting point to create an always on monitoring disk tool.
Continue reading...Using VPS instances provided by Contabo could be quite easy and not that expensive, but keep in mind to always have some backup at hand and to always keep at least a single snapshot of each instance (a single snapshot is included in the standard plan).
Not forgetting this layer of data preservation could help a lot and speed up recovery processes, so ... why not having this procedures fully automated and run by some Linux system ?
Let's have a look at a possible script ...
Continue reading...When self hosting your own backup system it's not that uncommon to have some sort of monitoring system, just to make sure backups are present and exectuted according to the scheduling.
To address this topic I added to my backup hosting server a script that:
- analyze if there are files modified in a specific internal
- use "s-nail" to send email notifications in case of issues
If you manage backups using Borg Backup you might end up consuming a lot of space on your storage (local and/or remote), even if you have scheduled "borg prune" sessions, you are using deduplication/compression also at file system level, etc. etc. To make room for…
Continue reading...Below a simple script to be used in Shelly Plus 2PM device set with a "Cover Profile" to: // add here your latitude in format XX.YYYYY let latitude = "xx.yyyyy"; // add here your longitude in format XX.YYYYY let longitude = "xx.yyyyy"; // add here…
Continue reading...If you want to pull and update all the images you have so far downloaded (and are still present on your system) using docker you can execute the following command: for IMAGE in $( LANG=en docker image ls -a --format table | grep -v -E "^REPOSITORY"…
Continue reading...To have a simple and quick management tool to edit robots.txt in a Wordpress website i realized this plugin that allows you to: Plugin can be download from https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/robots-txt-quick-editor/
Continue reading...Per migliorare la gestione del file robots.txt generato da Wordpress ho realizzato un plugin denominato "Robots.txt Quick Editor" che permette di: Il plugin si può trovare all'indirizzo https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/robots-txt-quick-editor/
Continue reading...Può essere utile, dato l'identificativo di un layer, andare a cercare in quali immagini esso è usato. Per questa semplice operazione è possibile utilizzare lo script docker-find-layer-image riportato qui di seguito. #!/bin/bashLAYER=$1if [ "$LAYER" = "" ]; then echo "" echo "Layer not given as…
Continue reading...If you have a UPS connected to your Linux box maybe you need some simple way to get how much power is left in the batteries, i've written a simple tool to get this information (note: you need Nut to be installed, configured and running).
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