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Acronis SnapAPI Fix Guide for Debian

15 Jul 2026
linuxfixbugfixcompileacronisbackupdebian

Mount/Access physical disks and USB devices into WSL2

1 May 2025
command linelinuxbashmountwindowswsl2windows 11usbgpartedpartedpowershell

SSH keys and Windows - easy way

16 Dec 2024
linuxconnectivitysshremotelinux subsystemwslssh-keyputty

Ping on WSL

6 Oct 2024
linuxfixwindowswslping

Restore root access on Linux server

20 Sept 2024
linuxbashbasicsshrestorepasswordrootssh-key

qBittorrent on Raspberry Pi

6 Jan 2024
raspberry pilinuxdebiantorrent

rTorrent - ruTorrent - Lighttpd

6 Jan 2024
raspberry pilinuxlighttpdtorrentlightweight

Mount Windows Network drives in WSL

9 Dec 2023
command linemountremotenetworkwsldrive

Convert FLV to MP4

9 Dec 2023
linuxbashconverttrickvideos

GIT tricks when you mess up a bit

2 Aug 2023
codegitdeveloperdevdevops

Reverse SSH Tunnel

30 Jun 2023
command lineubuntulinuxdebianbashtunnelsshport forward

Virtualhost and Letsencrypt

30 Jun 2023
command lineubuntulinuxdebianapachevirtualhostsslwebletsencriptcertificatehttps

Windows 10 - VMWare Disk cleanup and shrink

7 Nov 2020
vmscriptVMwarebatchcleanupoptimisationshrinkwindows10vmware toolsdefrag

Manage PDF files

19 May 2020
command linelinuxconvertmergewindowswindows10wsl1pdfimagemagicktrick

Migrate Linux Subsystem from one PC to another

3 May 2020
ubuntulinuxdebianvirtualisationbackupmigrationrestorewindowswindows10wsl1tarlinux subsystemwsl

Auto mount an encrypted IMG file stored on NFS share

3 May 2020
raspberry pidebianencryptionnfsbanana picryptosetuplukssparse filearmbiandebian 10buster

Reduce fail2ban.sqlite3 file

25 Mar 2020
manualfail2bansqlitesqlite3shrinkdb

Linux WiFi manual setup

22 Mar 2020
ubuntuwifimanualfixworkaround

MySQL Replication

22 Mar 2020
mysqlnotesdraftreplication

Docker How to

22 Mar 2020
dockernotescourseudemytraining

Fail2ban Debian 9

7 Sept 2018
raspberry pidebiansshsshdfail2banattacksecuritydebian 9

Ubuntu 16.04 - Wake on LAN

6 Aug 2018
ubuntuubuntu 16.04wake-on-lanwol

Ubuntu 16.04 with Office 2010, Photoshop CS2, Spotify and Skype

31 Dec 2017
ubuntuubuntu 16.04officewinewinehqworkstationphotoshopwindowsmicrosoftskypespotify

Grub console how to

5 Jun 2017
troubleshootinggrubgrub2bootloaderfix

TOP - memory explanation

22 May 2017
command linecommandtop

Kernel space - User space - Containers - Virtualisation

22 May 2017
kerneltheory

Docker and Kubernetes notes

22 May 2017
notestipskubernetes

Tips for RHCSA certification

22 May 2017
redhatRHCSAtips

Bridge / Bond interfaces CentOS/RedHat

22 May 2017
linuxcentosnetworkredhatbondbridge

Systemd - find what's wrong with systemctl

22 May 2017
raspberry pitroubleshootingsystemctlsystemd

OVH API notes

27 Apr 2017
scriptapipythonOVH

Email notification for successful SSH connection

22 Apr 2017
monitoringsshpam.dpamnotificationemail

Chef - notes

20 Apr 2017

Dynamic MOTD on Centos7

24 Mar 2017
motddynamic motdcentos7centoschmod

LVM - How to

9 Mar 2017
command linebashmountlvmpvspvmovelvsvgsresizepartionfdiskfdisk bashvgreducepvremovelvcreatepvcreatevgcreatevgextendmkfs.ext4formatting

Vim - remove the yellow highlight

24 Feb 2017
vimshortcut

Vim - Comment multi lines

24 Feb 2017
vimshortcut

phpMyAdmin under Varnish

24 Feb 2017
phpmyadminvarnishvcl

Varnish - basic notes

24 Feb 2017
command linevarnishbasic

Sophos antivirus notes

24 Feb 2017
command linebasicsophosantivirus

RPM - Yum notes

24 Feb 2017
centosbasicredhat

Develop your site using Wordpress and publish a static version on Cloud Files

22 Feb 2017
rackspaceapiturbolift

Plesk notes

17 Feb 2017
command linebasicplesk

PHP-FPM pool sizes explanation

17 Feb 2017
php-fpmsettingsexplanation

PHP script with limited memory assigned

17 Feb 2017
command linephpmemorylimitcli

Upgrade PHP on CentOS using IUS repository

17 Feb 2017
phpcentosredhatyumyum-plugin-replacereplace

Set X-Forward in Nginx logs

17 Feb 2017
X-Forwarded-Forlognginxsettings

MySQL - Increase I/O performance on InnoDB

17 Feb 2017
mysqlinnodboptimisation

InnoDB log file size

17 Feb 2017
mysqlinnodbsetuplog files

Postfix - blacklist domain

17 Feb 2017
troubleshootingmailpostfixsend_out

Compromised Email troubleshooting notes

17 Feb 2017
troubleshootingmailnotescompromise

Disable execution of script in a specific path within a vhost

17 Feb 2017
apachephpvhost

Which PHP script is eating my memory?

16 Feb 2017
apachetroubleshootingphpmemoryfastcginginx

What to do with a down Magento site

16 Feb 2017
apachetroubleshootingphpmemcachebasicexamplemagento

Redis - basic checks

16 Feb 2017
redisbasicnoteschecks

Linux resource checks notes

16 Feb 2017
basicnotes

echo esclamation mark "!"

16 Feb 2017
bashexception

sudo sudores notes

16 Feb 2017
sudo

How to chown and setuid

16 Feb 2017
advancesetuidchown

Backup Linux file/dir permissions

16 Feb 2017
backuppermissions

Add a existing user to existing group

16 Feb 2017
basicusergroup

Atop - notes

16 Feb 2017
command linebasic

Fail2ban notes

16 Feb 2017
apachewordpressbasicsshnotesfail2banbrute forceattacksecurity

Execute Linux command and kill the parent terminal without killing the process

16 Feb 2017
bashnohup

Rsync - exclude

16 Feb 2017
rsyncbasicexampleexclude

Screen - basic commands

16 Feb 2017
bashbasicshortcutscreen

Rsync - force chmod

16 Feb 2017
rsyncchmod

Install specific kernel version on CentOS

16 Feb 2017
centoskernel

Lsyncd - basic setup

16 Feb 2017
basiclsyncdlogrotate

Linux SSH auth passwordless using key

16 Feb 2017
authenticationsshsshdkeypasswordless

Sysinfo like on Linux

16 Feb 2017

vim without .vimrc

9 Feb 2017
vimvimrc

Compare two unsorted lists and get what's missing

9 Feb 2017
grepautomationsortlists

NFS - quick win

9 Feb 2017
ubuntunfsautomationcentos7

BASH: Sum all numbers in a list

8 Feb 2017

Bash telnet port check

8 Feb 2017
telnet

recap utility

8 Feb 2017
one linersscriptingutility

Bash log redirect / stdout and stderr

8 Feb 2017
bashredirectoutputstinstout

ftp/sftp - vsftpd

8 Feb 2017
command linevsftpdftpautomationsftpscripting

Lsyncd - conf.d like setup on Ubuntu

8 Feb 2017
ubuntulsyncd

One liners to automatic creation of username and passwords

8 Feb 2017
command lineftpautomationsftp

cat: create/write file

8 Feb 2017
command linecat

Space utilised one liners

8 Feb 2017
basicadvancelsofwaste

Nice / Renice... the dilemma

8 Feb 2017
processprioritynicerenice

Create and mount SWAP file

8 Feb 2017
swapswapfile

Holland backup setup

7 Feb 2017
scriptbackuphollandinstall

Rackspace Cloud - Remove old System IDs via command line

7 Feb 2017
scriptbackupapiagentcleanup

Lsync monitoring on Rackspace Cloud

7 Feb 2017
monitoringrackspaceapilsynclsyncdmanual

Rackspace Cloud Driveclient not working

7 Feb 2017
backuptroubleshootingrackspacedriveclientagent

Force reset/repush network configuration Rackspace Cloud server

7 Feb 2017
rackspaceopenstacknova-agentresetnovanetwork

Verify that private key and SSL certificate are matching via command line

7 Feb 2017
command linessltestchecksprivate keycertificateopenssl

Apache ProxyPass for Wordpress master-slave setup

7 Feb 2017
apachewordpressrewriteredirectmaster-slaveproxypass

Block UserAgent libwww-perl and test

7 Feb 2017
apacheuser-agentuser-agent

How to bypass Varnish

7 Feb 2017
apachetestingtestvarnish

Source IP in Apache logs

7 Feb 2017
apacheX-Forwarded-Forlogsource ipheader

Apache Rewrite rules

7 Feb 2017
apache.htaccessrewriteredirectrulesvhost

Wordpress notes

7 Feb 2017
wordpress

Apache 2.2 + PHP-FPM on Centos

7 Feb 2017
apachephp-fpmfastcgicompile

Super fast creation of large file in Linux

4 Feb 2017
shortcut

MAC - Auto mount shares at Login

4 Feb 2017
vmscriptVMwareautomationhacklogin

Linux Firewall notes

27 Jan 2017
ubuntuiptablesfirewallfirewalldcentosufw

Linux ACL examples

27 Jan 2017
apachewordpressaclexample

sed - comment out lines matching with

27 Jan 2017
scriptgrepautomationsedmatch

PHPMyAdmin on Centos/Ubuntu

27 Jan 2017
ubuntucentosmysqlphpmyadmin

Apache loop with Wordpress and SSL cert installed on a Cloud Load Balancer

27 Jan 2017
apachesslwordpresscloudloopx-forwarded-protoload balancer

PHP test pages

27 Jan 2017
apachetestphpphpinfo

MySQL - How much memory for InnoDB buffer?

27 Jan 2017
mysqlinnodbadvanceperconabuffermemorycustomisationtuning

Import/Export single MySQL table

27 Jan 2017
mysqldbsakeexportdumptable

MySQL Reset admin root password

27 Jan 2017
mysqlmariadbpasswordrootreset

Restore database from Holland XtraBackup using dbsake

27 Jan 2017
mysqlrestorextrabackupdbsake

Space utilised in MySQL tables

27 Jan 2017
mysqlspacecheckscalculation

MySQL DB creation and user management

27 Jan 2017
mysqlcreate dbmanage usercheck user

MySQL Engine - InnoDB vs MyISAM

27 Jan 2017
convertmysqlinnodbmyisam

MySQL temporary table to RAM

27 Jan 2017
mysql

MySQL notes

27 Jan 2017
mysqlbasicnotes

Apache not www to www redirects

27 Jan 2017
apacheredirect

LVM - Add space

27 Jan 2017
lvmextenddisk

LVM - quick win

27 Jan 2017
lvmexample

LVM for dummies

27 Jan 2017
basiclvmdummieshowto

Apache MaxClients and ServerLimit on Centos 7 and Ubuntu 14.04

27 Jan 2017
apacheapache2.4maxclients

Find files based on date/time

27 Jan 2017
bashone linerscommandfindmtimectime

bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

27 Jan 2017
bashrmbatchfile managementremove

Automatic Updates on Raspberry Pi

21 Jan 2017
raspberry pidebianautomationupdate

How to combine X consecutive lines in one using sed

2 Dec 2016
sedmergelinestext manipulation

Ubuntu Mac Keyboard

24 Nov 2016
keyboard

Remote port forwarding via SSH

7 Nov 2016
tunnelsshbastionvncport forward

Virtualbox mount host's shares to specific guest's paths

27 Oct 2016
vmvirtualbox

Create a bootable Sierra ISO for VMware

27 Oct 2016
vmmacisoVMwarepatch

Ubuntu 16.04 GUI remote login

27 Oct 2016
ubuntux11vncremoteguistableubuntu 16.04

Check connection with netcat nc

14 Oct 2016
bashnetcatncconnectivity

SSH tunnel from A to B via jumpbox

13 Oct 2016
nctunnelsshbastionjumpboxsockproxy

Whatsapp to command your Raspberry Pi and Nagios monitoring

10 Oct 2016
raspberry pinagiosautomationpythonwhatsapp

Send attachment via command line in Linux

7 Oct 2016
command linemailattachment

Physically restart Sky router via Raspberry Pi

26 Sept 2016
raspberry pibashautomationskyhubpythonenergeniesocketplug

Check Sky Hub speed script

26 Sept 2016
bashnagiosmonitoringskyhubadslbroadband

GlusterFS

14 Jun 2016
clusterserverglusterfs

GIT basic commands

14 Jun 2016
command linebasicgit

Docker basic commands

14 Jun 2016
command linedockerbasic

NSCD - Cache DNS requests

9 Jun 2016
dnsnscdcache

Improve/Ubuntu-like Font Rendering in Debian using Infinality Font

9 Jun 2016
ubuntudebiancustomfonts

Rackspace - Reinstall Nova-Agent

9 Jun 2016
ubuntunova-agentreinstall

Rackspace Cloud - .localdomain added in /etc/hosts after reboot

9 Jun 2016
serverhostslocaldomainreboot

Rackspace Cloud - Automatic delete orphan backup agent IDs

9 Jun 2016
automationrackspacecloud backup

PHP Sessions in Redis

9 Jun 2016
phpredissessionhahigh available

API Calls with options and parameters

9 Jun 2016
rackspaceapi

Rackspace Cloud - Get AUTH Token

9 Jun 2016
authenticationrackspaceopenstackserverapitoken

Linux Cloud Server migration script

9 Jun 2016
rsyncservermigration

Auto deploy from BitBucket repository via Cron

9 Jun 2016
automationcronbitbucketdeployrepositorycode

Rackspace - Cloud Monitoring - Ansible plugins

9 Jun 2016
monitoringautomationansiblerackspaceserverapi

Rackspace - Cloud server inaccessible after creation from custom image

9 Jun 2016
rackspaceserverxennova-agentxe-linux

Rackspace - Autoscale - Remove specific node (no replace)

9 Jun 2016
rackspacecloudserverapi

Rackspace - Get Cloud Server's UID

9 Jun 2016
rackspaceserver

SSL - Cloud Load Balancer loop

9 Jun 2016
apacherackspace

Rackspace - Cloud Sever autokill script

9 Jun 2016
scriptbashrackspaceopenstackcloudserverapi

Scheduled unattended tasks - at

9 Jun 2016
unattendedscheduledtaskatcron

SSL - Check if a certificate matches with its public key

9 Jun 2016
command linesslverification

Wordpress Apache ProxyPass

9 Jun 2016
apachewordpressredirectmaster-slaveproxypass

Fullstatus Apache 2.4 Centos7

9 Jun 2016
centos7apache2.4fullstatus

APC (php module) and OPcache

9 Jun 2016
apacheopcacheapc

Test loading speed ignoring Varnish

9 Jun 2016
curlapachetestvarnish

One liners alternative for apachebuddy

9 Jun 2016
apachephp-fpmloadapachebuddy

phpMyAdmin - from "source"

9 Jun 2016
sourcephpmyadmin

Wordpress PHP-FPM and Apache (with variables)

9 Jun 2016
apachephp-fpmansible

Apache 2.4 + PHP-FPM Ubuntu 14.04

9 Jun 2016
ubuntuapachephp-fpmapache2.4

Wordpress Useful commands

9 Jun 2016
mysqlwordpress

Apache 2.2 + PHP-FPM (Centos 6)

9 Jun 2016
apachephp-fpmcentosapache2.2mod_php

PHP Sessions in Memcache

9 Jun 2016
phpmemcachememcachedsession

Disable firewalld - Centos 7

9 Jun 2016
iptablesfirewalldcentos7

Letsencrypt Free SSL Certificate

9 Apr 2016
apachesslletsencriptfree

BASH conditional expressions

19 Mar 2016
bashif

Create an encrypted LUKS sparse file

19 Mar 2016
encryptioncryptosetuplukssparse file

Dynamic MOTD on Debian

14 Mar 2016
debianmotddynamic motd

Backup - rsnapshot and rdiff (multiple backups)

12 Mar 2016
backuprsnapshotrdiff-backupautomation

Mac tricks - command line

12 Mar 2016
command linemDNSResponderpmsetBonjoursleepwake

Time Machine - Change Schedule

13 Jul 2015
command linemacosxtime machine

Banana Pi Pro - WLAN configuration

13 Jul 2015
command linelinuxdebianraspberri pibanana piwlanwifi

Nagios3 and Lighttpd

4 Mar 2015
linuxdebianlighttpdnagiosnagios3raspberri pimonitoring

Managing your file system

4 Mar 2015
tune2fsdumpe2fsfilesystem check

Apache .htaccess for website password authentication

20 May 2014
apacheweb.htaccessapache2authentication

BASH - File test operators

14 May 2014
bashfile operatorstest

Inetd Daemon

14 May 2014
inetdtelnetdtelnetopenbsd-inetdinetd.conf

Convert EXT3 to EXT4

13 May 2014
ext3 to ext4convertfilesystemext4tune2fs

Networking - IP Address classes explained

13 May 2014
classesa b cnetworking classesip rangesnetwork classesip range classesnetmask

Regex - Grep reference

13 May 2014
grepregexregular expressioncheat sheetreference

Netcat - such a powerful 'cat'!

13 May 2014
networktroubleshootingnetcatncconnectivityscript

VIM as default editor in Debian/Ubuntu

9 May 2014
ubuntudebianvimdefault editoralternativesupdate-alternatives

Lighttpd and virtualhosts

6 May 2014
raspberry pilinuxdebianvirtualhostlighttpdweb

Puppet - Let's start

2 May 2014
linuxdebianpuppetpuppetmastercluster

DD-WRT Dynamic DNS Custom configuration for Internet.bs

2 May 2014
dyndnsinternetbsdynamic dns updatedd-wrt

Dynamic DNS update script

2 May 2014
raspberry piubuntudebianscriptbashdyndnsno-ipinternetbsdynamic dns updatecloudflare

Mac - Enable syntax highlight VIM

9 Apr 2014
macvimsyntax highligh

SSL PASSIVE FTP with virtual users on Raspberry Pi

3 Apr 2014
raspberry pidebianbackupvsftpdftpuseraddvirtual usersssliptablesfirewallnetfilter

How to build a Debian package from source

29 Mar 2014
debianpackagesdebdh_makedpkg-buildpackagesourcerecompilemakeconfigure

Backup Raspberry Pi SD on your Mac... and restore.

29 Mar 2014
raspberry pimacterminalddbackup

ESXi host on D945GCLF2 Intel Atom mainboard, with NFS storage attached running on RAID1

29 Mar 2014
vmisoESXiVMwareRDMD945GCLF2atomraid1nfsstorageesxi 4.1patch

Creating ISO images from a folder in OSX

29 Mar 2014
command linemacosxisohdiutiljolietvirtualisation

How to test virtualhosts - command line

29 Mar 2014
curlapachevirtualhosttestingtroubleshooting

Mac - Time Machine on a Raspberry Pi

28 Mar 2014
raspberry pimacsparsebundletime machine

Mac - Upgrade rsync to version 3

28 Mar 2014
pathmacrsyncupdate

Mac/Linux - Terminal customisation .profile/.bashrc

28 Mar 2014
bashmac.profileitermcolourterminal.bashrc

Mac /Users partition on RAID1

28 Mar 2014
macraiduserhomemount

Encrypted RAID on Mac OS X

28 Mar 2014
macraidencryption

DNS updated via DHCP: BIND9 and ISC-DHCP on Linux

28 Mar 2014
linuxdebiandnsbindnetworkdhcpisc-dhcpbind9dns auto update

XDM custom login

28 Mar 2014
ubuntulinuxdebianxdmcustomx

BASH: check if a package is installed [Debian/Ubuntu]

28 Mar 2014
ubuntudebianbashpackagescheck if installeddpkg-query

BASH: Current Script folder

28 Mar 2014
scriptbashvariablelocal pathpath

Minimal X server - Less then 1.2GB

28 Mar 2014
ubuntulinuxdebianxorgxserverminimal Xminimalxtermblackboxleafpad

Raspberry Pi Emulator on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

28 Mar 2014
qemuraspberry piemulatorubuntuemulation

How to change hidden attribute on a file on Mac - command line

27 Mar 2014
command linehiddennohiddenmacosx