Posts tagged with 'raspberry pi'
Backing up and restoring whole block devices
SD cards are not really a reliable storage, especially when used constantly e.g. while sitting in always powered-on Raspberry Pi. Because of that I've recently needed to perform lots of backup/restore operations ;) I wrote this script for backing up: ... read more →
Adding voltage and current measurements to the sunpowered Pi
Remember my sunpowered Pi installation on the balcony ? The only indication I had, since recently, on how well the system is doing was an LED blinking red when battery was low. Not really helpful in making predictions or making measurements over the ... read more →
WiFi on RaspberryPi
Easiest way I've found to configure wifi on RaspberryPi, not really being mentioned when you search for such. Not using separate wpa_supplicant configuration at all. root@frontend:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface e ... read more →
Sunpowered server setup
Remember my NAS ? It turned out great ! Very reliable storage, I had a disk failure once and haven't noticed for some time because all the files were just there. Hardware enhanced virtualization is another great stuff. I ended up migrating all my of ... read more →
Compiling tarsnap on RaspberryPi
Just a quickie for tarsnap 1.0.35. Featuring my new favourite, download software called aria2. aptitude install aria2 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev e2fslibs-dev aria2c https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35.tgz aria2c https://www.tarsnap.co ... read more →