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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Zabbix 7 on Ubuntu 24.04

Zabbix 7 is an enterprise-grade open-source monitoring solution for networks, servers, and cloud services. This guide installs Zabbix Server 7.0 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with MySQL and Nginx. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server MySQL 8.0 installed Nginx and PHP 8.3-FPM installed A user with sudo privileges Step […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Netdata on Ubuntu 24.04

Netdata is a real-time performance monitoring tool that collects thousands of metrics per second with near-zero overhead. It provides a beautiful web dashboard out of the box with no configuration required. This guide installs Netdata on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A user with sudo […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate on Ubuntu 24.04

Log files grow without bound unless managed. Logrotate is the standard Linux tool that automatically rotates, compresses, and deletes old log files. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS includes Logrotate pre-installed. This guide explains how to configure it. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A user with sudo privileges Step 1 – […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure LVM on Ubuntu 24.04

LVM (Logical Volume Manager) provides flexible disk management by abstracting physical storage into logical volumes that can be resized, snapshotted, and moved. This guide explains how to create and manage LVM volumes on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server One or more additional block devices (e.g. […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up NFS File Sharing on Ubuntu 24.04

NFS (Network File System) allows Linux servers to share directories over the network. Client machines mount NFS shares and access files as if they were local. This guide configures an NFS server and client on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Two Ubuntu 24.04 LTS servers (server and client) on […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Samba File Sharing on Ubuntu 24.04

Samba implements the SMB protocol on Linux, enabling file sharing between Linux servers and Windows clients. This guide sets up a Samba file server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS accessible from Windows and macOS machines. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A user with sudo privileges A Windows or macOS […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04

mdadm is the standard Linux tool for creating and managing software RAID arrays. RAID provides redundancy and/or performance improvements across multiple disks. This guide creates a RAID 1 (mirror) array on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Two or more additional block devices (e.g. /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc) […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Automate Backups with rsync and cron on Ubuntu 24.04

rsync is a fast, versatile file synchronisation tool that efficiently copies only changed files. Combined with cron, it provides automated, incremental backups. This guide sets up automated local and remote backups on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server SSH access to a remote backup server (optional) […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

Prometheus is a powerful time-series monitoring system and Grafana is the leading visualisation dashboard. Together they form the most popular open-source monitoring stack. This guide installs both on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A user with sudo privileges Minimum 2 GB RAM Step 1 – […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up the ELK Stack on Ubuntu 24.04

The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is the leading open-source log management and analytics platform. This guide installs ELK Stack 8.x on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for centralised log collection and analysis. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Minimum 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) Java 21 installed A user […]

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