I forgot to update on the recovering data that in the first place make me stop streak wrote on the articles. I miserly recover only 10% of whole intended data: sadly, alternatively send that storage to lab and recovering may be last resource, and in the same time financial decision for whom may concern. So back up may be the best of whole alternative. back to the topic story, what I show relate on webmin config, if you want command line alternative route the way be here, windows access to SMB share, macOS access to SMB share, android access to SMB share. and that’s all for SMB server share. ...

I stop the articles for 2 weeks because I knew myself will reminiscent about many things; time that OSI model still needed, Netbuei, Netware, appletalk, X.25, ATM, Netbios. now we move to era of TCP/IP, especially TCP/IP version 4 and version 6. when talk about file sharing, windows users almost think about windows folder share, before this many kind of windows share happen before, in the end windows share took dominant. ...

do you any feel that nobody understand you?. yep, many time I use to feel that. I had someone that shook me awake, first to mention is Wuth (Worawut) my old good friend that worked together in HK before. second is k anne (Sukonta) my greatest one that ever pass in my life. for k anne she shook me awake so many time and too detail to mention. while Wuth was easier ones even more powerful in some way. ...

this may just for reference, not related to backup purpose, however this is easier than use ssh all the time. after install openssh on your server you can identify your system that you already have ssh profile in your windows clients or not by go to c:\users\\.ssh in case you login to ssh and found some conflict, you can just delete this “.ssh” folder, windows will recreate this folder again later. ...

before start on this post, have to stress the devices I use with the matter I have and may be yours. I use SATA and pc consumer grade for this I have and in range I saw what it can serve, but some work need a lot more. this consumer grade ubuntu server can serve as file server, docker, test bed for GoLang, Python, some test for MariaDB or MangoDB but it will never good enough for large corporate Database. ...

if you follow my few recent posts about storage, you may want to know how to install ubuntu server 22.04 step by step for now. this may not brief, some may very technical. first, I install this on the machine and equipment’s I have, some may not suite your needed, bandwidth and capacity-speed may vary by each usages. you can download ubuntu server version via this. and in case you want to create usb installation disk by windows desktop you can download rufus here. ...

you can make your cloud server, select your hardware and look into each components to put into your system, even can choose your OS(es) or cloud software. for now (november 2022), I recommended like this. look into your need. how much storage you need, how strong your storage password + encryption + time of backup/ usage bandwidth. for all number I suggested to multiply by 2 at least for your own good. look into your budget, time to spend on this, your special cases (app, database, programming language, condition) included all that in your consideration. if you don’t have time or special need to mess with complex solutions, NAS or even cloud services may be good choices. you don’t need to make it harder. if you want to learn something new, low budget, on experimental period, let follow my diy guide below. ...

in case you didn’t read about backup free on cloud you should consider read that first. this is the “not free” solution, so budgeting may need to consider here too. first option, use the cloud solution you have and pay extra money for the storage., and that’s it. second, that we will dig deep here, buy NAS and put it on cloud. third, that we will talk later; setting your owncloud, auto compressed and encrypted files on schedule. ...

do you know how your data can be corrupt easily? backup is only good solutions for this, and if your backup can access easily via any device anywhere, is it a good news to you? ( for some that know how serious of data lose, we are in the same boat.) as the title of post, we talk about backup on cloud for free. before dig deep in to the territory. have to clarify the condition: ...

Quite sad that living in Bangkok/ nearby area (Bangkok Metropolitan areas) has very severe problems, walkway are not design for universal access, law enforcement is not force to do universal access, motorcycle riders has less sympathy for people of walkway, car drivers has less sympathy for walking cross the road. How to fix all this? This show some very shocking truth even rail system in Bangkok areas not suppose to do universal access. ...