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Part 3: Basic management and diagnosis tasks. The first two posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” and “- part 2” dealt with the setup of and the access to a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the basic management and diagnosis tasks, e.g. […]
Part 2: Access the RAID. The first post “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” dealt with the setup of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the usage, i.e. managing the access to the RAID from outside via NFS, Samba and FTP. Table of […]
Part 1: System overview and installation of the RAID. RAID storage systems can act as a backup system with a low failure rate. Setting up such a system is no rocket science and is described in a step by step manner below. The objective is to achieve an economical NAS storage for access via NFS […]
This blog post deals with the DietPi tool DietPi-Backup, it describes the procedure of the backup/restore, especially if you have several DietPi systems which you want to backup on a central backup server. It shall be shown, The basic backup/restore functionality was described in the recommendable video “Raspberry Pi Backup Einrichtung – ganz easy mit […]
In the last blog entry Install a DietPi desktop system in a few steps, the installation of a DietPi system with a graphical user interface is described. DietPi has built in installation options for a couple of desktop variants (Xfce, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, GNUstep).This blog post describes how to install further desktop variants and how […]
The DietPi base installation basically focuses on headless resp. machines without a graphical user interface (GUI) dealing with server applications like Nextcloud, Pi-hole, media servers, etc.Generally, an installation of a graphical desktop via dietpi-config and dietpi-software is not difficult, but with the DietPi built-in automated installation process this can be simplified. This blog article shows […]
Nowadays in times of Covid, the number of online meetings is rising compared to presence meetings. This is the fact not only in the professional work, also in private collaboration areas like team oriented work, union/club meetings, etc. online meetings are done more and more.Well known meeting tools are Skype, MS Teams, Jitsi (free and […]
An Apple Mac mini is a robust and stable PC based hardware with a low power consumption which can be used to install DietPi. Compared to Raspberry Pi SBCs, the PC based hardware gives enough options for larger memory, higher computational power and built in storage options.This blog described how DietPi is installed on this […]
The v0.6.0 release of DietPi Dashboard brings many new features, changes, and bug fixes. For information on the dashboard itself, see the documentation. Here are some of the important changes: New Features Customizable Token Expiry The expiry time for the login token generated can now be changed in the config file (/opt/dietpi-dashboard/config.toml). Customizable Log Level […]
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been detected, which allows a user to get write access to a file, it shouldn’t have write access to, by using pipes for data streams and the Linux filesystem page cache. The vulnerability is hence called “Dirty Pipe“, otherwise given the ID CVE-2022-0847. The vulnerability affects […]
