B3 Server on paapereira.xyz

sshfsmount update: Desktop notifications

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:00:00 +0000

I’ve updated sshfsmount to include desktop notifications.

You can install it the same way already described in the previous post.

Mount remote directories in your local machine

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:57:00 +0000

I have my Music and Video directories in my B3 Server. To access them locally I mount them using sshfs.

In order to not think about it, I created a script that runs at boot time to take care of that for me.

The script is available at my github account in a repository called sshfsmount.

Installing sshfs

First of all you need to install sshfs:

1sudo apt-get install sshfs

Get the code

Get the code from my sshfsmount github repository:

B3 Server 2.5.1.2 Upgrade

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:39:00 +0000

New B3 Server version is out: 2.5.1.2.

Upgrade to 2.5.1.2

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
2DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito Forum Notes (2.5.1.2)

Fix a check for easyfind reading config file to detect correctly if easyfind is enabled or not.

B3 Server 2.5.1.1 Upgrade

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:49:00 +0000

New B3 Server versions are out, 2.5.1 and 2.5.1.1.

Upgrade to 2.5.1.1

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
2DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito Forum Notes (2.5.1)

New Easyfind system on B3, now handling IP updates even if behind another router
Print server updated to support even more printers
Updated minidlna server (minidlna) to latest
Some minor bug fixes

Official Excito Forum Notes (2.5.1.1)

One bug fix regarding the updater

First Milestone of b3caster

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:23:00 +0100

You can grab the first Milestone of b3caster here.

Also check the wiki for install instructions.

Podcast Server

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:31:00 +0100

Inspired by Farhad’s approach of bashpodder, as featured in a Linux Action Show episode about bash scripts, I decided to create a Podcast Server of my own.

b3caster, as I’m calling it is a podcast server based on dircaster and bashpodder.

The idea is to have a podcast server that downloads and feeds my favorite podcasts.

Components

b3caster needs the following components to work:

Linux
Web Server
PHP
cron

I’m using my B3 Server for this.

B3 Server 2.5.0.2 Upgrade

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:19:00 +0100

New B3 Server version is out, with minor updates.

Upgrade to 2.5.0.2

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
2DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito Forum Notes

Fixed another backup regression.

Creating a subversion server in B3 Server

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:37:00 +0100

In order to keep a version control of my home projects, I decided to set up a subversion server in my B3 Server.

I will be using subversion an Apache.

B3 Server Installation

Become root

1su

Install subversion and support for Apache

1apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

Create a base directory for your subversion projects

1mkdir /var/svn

Give permissions for Apache

1chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn

Configure Apache svn module

1vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

Here’s my dav_svn.conf. Be sure to alter SVNParentPath to your subversion projects base directory.

 1 <Location /svn>
 2
 3 # Uncomment this to enable the repository
 4 DAV svn
 5
 6 SVNParentPath /var/svn
 7 SVNListParentPath on
 8 AuthType Basic
 9 AuthName "Subversion Repository"
10 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
11
12 # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
13 # committers authenticate themselves. It requires the 'authz_user'
14 # module (enable it with 'a2enmod').
15 #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
16 Require valid-user
17 SSLRequireSSL
18 #</LimitExcept>
19
20</Location>

Restart Apache

1/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Create users for subversion

1htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd *yourusername*

Create your projects with the right permissions

1svnadmin create /var/svn/yourproject
2chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/yourproject

To remove projects

1cd /var/svn
2rm yourproject -R

Client Installation

Install subversion

1sudo apt-get install subversion

Connect and sync your projects. This will create a new directory yourproject in your home folder.

1svn co https://b3server/svn/yourproject

Optionally you can install a graphical tool like rabbitvcs, with nautilus integration

1sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitvcs/ppa
2sudo apt-get update
3sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-nautilus3
4killall nautilus

You can check out the excito wiki for further details.

B3 Server 2.5 Upgrade

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:14:00 +0100

New B3 Server version is out (2.5 & 2.5.0.1).

Upgrade to 2.5

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
2DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito Forum Notes

1New features and major changes
2* Added support for Apple TimeMachine
3* Added support for Apple AirPrint
4* Showing HD temperature on b3/admin page
5* Allowing special characters in passwords
6* Improved translations for German and Swedish
7* Added ecryptfs support to kernel
8* Ssl security fix
9* 10+ minor bug fixes

B3 Server 2.4 Upgrade

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

New B3 Server version is out.

Upgrade to 2.4

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
2DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

Turn off B3 Server after the upgrade
Power cycle by removing the power cord and waiting for 5 seconds before reconnecting and start B3 Server

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

B3 Server 2.3.2 Update

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:51:00 +0000

Minor update.

Upgrading to 2.3.2

Become root

1su

Do an upgrade

1apt-get update
2apt-get upgrade

Left beyond packages

1apt-get install bubba-album bubba-backend libdbix-class-perl libsql-abstract-perl squeezecenter

A little cleansing

1apt-get autoremove

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito forum notes

1New features and major changes
2* Fixed issue in ftd causing upload via file manager to fail after 256 files
3* Fixed memory leak issue in disk manager, causing UI to behave strange and some operations to fail
4* Fixed memory leak issue in photo album generation

Backing up MySQL in B3 Server to rsync.net

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:27:00 +0000

In a previous post I talked about how to backup to rsync.net using duplicity.

I will now show how to backup your B3 Server Mysql databases using the same method.

Installation

Be sure duplicity is installed:

1su
2apt-get install duplicity

Generate an ssh key to connect to rsync.net

Generate the ssh key using the defaults (don’t use a password when asked):

1ssh-keygen -t rsa

Copy your key to rsync.net (if you don’t have no one there):

1scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.rsync.net:.ssh/authorized_keys

If you already have a key from another machine or user in rsyn.net, you need to add a new one:

1cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@server.rsync.net 'dd of=.ssh/authorized_keys oflag=append conv=notrunc'

Generate a gpg public and private key to encrypt your backups

Generate the gpg keys (get down your private key, example: 123AbcH123BB4321):

1gpg --gen-key

You can check the keys in your system:

1gpg --list-keys

Look in the output something like this. Look for the public key (in this example your public key is 1AAB123A)

1pub 1239A/**1AAB123A** 2011-10-09 [expires: 2012-10-08]
2uid Your Name (name) <mail@mail.com>
3sub 54321/1234BBCC 2011-10-09 [expires: 2012-10-08]

Backup/restore your databases

I have MyISAM tables, so I will be using the mysqlhotcopy command. You can also use mysqldump.

B3 Server 2.3.1 Update

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Minor update released last week.

Upgrading to 2.3.1

Become root

1su

Do an upgrade

1apt-get update
2apt-get upgrade

Upgrade b3 backend

1apt-get install bubba-backend

You can confirm the software version going into b3 web administration page, then Settings and Software update.

Official Excito forum notes

A major part of this update is a new software update service. When updating the update service, strange things can happen, so:

B3 Server 2.3 Upgrade

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:06:00 +0100

B3 Server 2.3 version come out a couple of months ago.

Normally the upgrade is easy and done via the web interface, but since I changed the mysql root default password, I need to upgrade manually.

Upgrade to 2.3

Connect to your b3 server

1ssh user@b3server

Become root

1su

Upgrade instructions

1change_distribution elvin
2apt-get -c /etc/apt/bubba-apt.conf -y update
3apt-get -c /etc/apt/bubba-apt.conf -y dist-upgrade

Keep in mind the configuration files you want to keep during the upgrade. It will ask you. Example: samba.conf

Reinstall B3 Server default system

Sun, 08 May 2011 12:19:00 +0100

B3 Server comes with a custom Debian (Squeeze) install.

In order to reinstall the all system you will need an USB stick and the latest install image from http://update.excito.net/install/latest/b3/.

Creating the usb recovery disk

You’ll need an empty usb stick (it will be formatted)
Find out the device reference of your usb stick (check the LABEL in the output)

1sudo blkid

or use gparted (sudo apt-get gparted) to find out

B3 online again

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:59:00 +0100

So, my B3 is online again. After is breakdown last week I can finally rest (and reinstall/reconfigure everything again).

The problem was the hard drive. I never seen a hard drive so damaged. Luckily I managed to backup all my data. Check my previous post on how to create an usb recovery disk for booting b3 server so you can move your files elsewhere.

Create an usb recovery disk for booting b3 server

Sun, 01 May 2011 16:08:00 +0100

I can’t access my B3 Server and I don’t know why… :( I was away for a week and in between I couldn’t access my server.

Now, after locally rebooting it, still no joy…

I will show how to create an usb recovery disk to boot the B3 Server and how to backup your B3 storage to your local computer. After this you can do a full recovery, formating and reinstalling your B3 Server.