Author Archives: Mel Grubb

Raspberry Pi Home Server v2: Installing the OS

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Mel Grubb

Note: This post is part of a series. Each post builds on the previous ones. If you are just trying to add one thing to an existing system that was not built following this series, then I cannot promise that … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Home Server v2: Meet the Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Mel Grubb

Note: This post is part of a series. Each post builds on the previous ones. If you are just trying to add one thing to an existing system that was not built following this series, then I cannot promise that … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Home Server v2: Introduction

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Mel Grubb

Preface to the “second edition” Back in 2014, I wrote a series of posts on creating a complete home server using a Raspberry Pi. There were plenty of articles out there on the web that covered the same individual elements, … Continue reading →

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Almost there

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Mel Grubb

The second edition of the Raspberry Pi Home Server series should be finished and published this weekend. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I got a fire lit under me last night when it seems my series … Continue reading →

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State of the Blog

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Mel Grubb

I wanted to post an update here to let people know what’s going on with the blog, and the Raspberry Pi Home Server series in particular. I realized a while ago that the Pi world moves incredibly fast, and my … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Home Server: Changes

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Mel Grubb

A lot of exciting changes are happening, and at least one major disappointment. There’s a new Raspbian image out(https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian), and it brings a new desktop along with it (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel). The Pixel desktop is a Pi-optimized LXDE variant, and it looks … Continue reading →

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Backing up a Pi that boots from the hard drive

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Mel Grubb

I get this question a lot, and figured it’s about time to address it. Once you’ve finished a Raspberry Pi Home Server, and have it booting from the hard drive, how are you supposed to take backups? After all, you … Continue reading →

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CrashPi Zero?

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Mel Grubb

So I just went to my local MicroCenter, and picked up a Raspberry Pi Zero for $5. It’s pretty much everything the model “A” had, but with 512MB of memory. You could also say that it’s like a model “B” without … Continue reading →

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CrashPi – An off-Site backup for the whole family

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Mel Grubb

Note: Just as with the main CrashPlan article, the CrashPi is not currently operational, but I’m leaving the article here in hopes that maybe the next update to CrashPlan won’t break things quite so completely. In Part 15 of the Raspberry Pi Home … Continue reading →

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Raspbian Jessie released

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Mel Grubb

Raspbian “Jessie” just went official, and that means that those of you following along with my instructions are going to notice some serious changes. The first and most obvious is that Jessie boots straight to the desktop by default, and … Continue reading →

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