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How to use duplicity to backup directly to a Google cloud storage bucket to achieve time machine like incremental backups on Ubuntu 15.10 wily
from: http://askubuntu.com/questions/164984/backup-with-duplicity-on-google-cloud-storage https://github.com/boto/boto apt-get install pip pip install boto gsutil config -a duplicity local_dir gs://yourbucket
How to mount an additional persistant storage disk to a Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily
From: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#create_disk sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk echo ‘/dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk /mnt/example-disk ext4 discard,defaults 1 1’ | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED]
I wanted to mount my Google drive onto my Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily. I also have my Google Cloud storage bucket mounted using gcsfuse. I tried all sorts of manual ways to validate the API keys the below is the only way that worked. The solution was to install lxdm, x2go, Read more about How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED][…]
How to install X2Go server on Ubuntu 15.10 wily for the fastest remote desktop
add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable apt-get update sudo apt-get install x2goserver
How to securely copy your SSH key file to a remote host for secure passwordless login on Ubuntu 15.10 wily.
On remote host Enable passwords authentication in remote host: /etc/ssh/sshd_config service ssh restart On local host ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 ssh-copy-id <username>@<host> Then on remote host disable password authentication and restart ssh