EFI Improvements

I use rEFInd as my EFI Boot Manager. This post is about taking some extreme measures to achieve best possible boot experience across all my machines - both servers, PCs and laptops. Why bother about boot? For me it is important to have the following features available: Some pre-boot environment that might be useful, if I brick my main OS. Ability to boot alternative syste. EFI partition I decided to always reserve 1 GB for EFI partition....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · Bart Prokop

Install Arch Linux on Kimsufi Ovh Eco

In this post, I will cover my learnings from installing Arch Linux on OVH dedicated server. I’ve also shared what I learnt on Arch Linux on a VPS. Installation procedure Prerequisites: Obviously a dedicated server from Kimsufi (any OVH dedicated server should be fine). You also must have public SSH key to SSH to the server after installation is completed. Steps below covers installation of “Cloud Ready” images, that are available here....

November 13, 2022 · 4 min · Bart Prokop

Backing BTRFS filesystem with Restic to Storj.

I’m using BTRFS on my home server. One of subvolumes is called media and is used to store curated collection of personal and professional photos, movies, books, etc. for whole family. In this post, I will share my experience with backing the whole media NAS share (currently 116 GiB). Backup procedure Consistency - preparing backup source First snapshot btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /mnt/t20raid/svols/media /mnt/t20raid/snaps/media/2022-05-31 Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/t20raid/svols/media' in '/mnt/t20raid/snaps/media/2022-05-31' restic backup to Storj via S3 gateway...

June 5, 2022 · 2 min · Bart Prokop