Category Archives: Linux Stuff

• Great News! It’s time for an upgrade! ALMA, here we come….

  Posted on December 8, 2025 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks, Linux Stuff, MariaDB.

  After running the CENTOS systems for almost 10 years, it’s now time to upgrade!  I have chosen to upgrade my Linux system with Alma Linux 10 and will be putting up several tricks and tips that I have learned along the way.  Some of the systems that I’ll be replacing are: LAMP Web Server – […]

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• CentOS 7 Emergency Mode on boot/reboot with RAID mounted

  Posted on July 14, 2015 by Chris Couture in Linux Stuff.

  I recently built a system for backups and installed Centos 7 on it along with Bacula.  The system has an Intel Raid card built into the motherboard and since the installation DVD discovered the 24TB RAID, I figured I’d be good to go.  I will be using the RAID array for backup files and have […]

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• Installing VMware Tools on Centos 7

  Posted on May 28, 2015 by Chris Couture in Linux Stuff.

  It’s easy to install VMware Tools on a Centos guest.  This allows you to properly shutdown guests running Linux and also give a little more in-depth reporting within ESXi. All you need to do is type the following command in SSH: yum install open-vm-tools This will download and install VMware Tools and you will need […]

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  Installing Webmin, Bacula 7 and Bacula-Web on CentOS 7

  Posted on March 1, 2015 by Chris Couture in Linux Stuff.

    https://youtu.be/yNqRukupEXA Kind of overkill to have Bacula installed at my home but if you’ve read some of the other things I’ve got going on (which I will post when I get a chance), you will see that everything I do is a little overkill.  I’m using it to backup my home automation server, iTunes […]

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