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Bare metal backup and restore with Clonezilla

Introduction Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Three types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live, Clonezilla lite server, and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla lite server or SE is …

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10 seconds LinuxServer.io application installer

Introduction The script getlsioapp.sh allows you to install a LinuxServer.io application in less than 10 seconds. It will automatically create the necessary volume directories on the host and automatically create the correct docker-compose configuration file. The docker-compose configuration file includes a description of all environment variables, volume- and port mappings. In the example below the …

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Portainer Tools: Merge and Host App Template definitions

Portainer App Templates can be used to easily deploy Docker containers with predefined settings. At the moment it is not possible to add more than one App Template definition URL to Portainer. Merging App Template definitions has to be done by hand. This application allows you to add your own App Template definitions, merge them with existing ones …

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Using NZBGet and Radarr/Sonarr/Bazarr/Lidarr on Synology NAS

Introduction In this guide, we will show you how to install and configure the following applications. NZBGet NZBGet is a binary downloader, which downloads files from Usenet based on information given in nzb-files. Sonarr Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite …

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Using GitHub Actions for Python applications

What are GitHub Actions? Recently I created Portainer App Templates for LinuxServer.io Docker containers and Docker scripts for LinuxServer.io Docker containers. Since I was looking for a way to run the Python scripts periodically and publishing the output to GitHub, I thought of taking a look at GitHub Actions. From the GitHub Actions website. GitHub …

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Docker scripts for LinuxServer.io Docker containers

These script can be used to easily deploy LinuxServer.io Docker containers with predefined settings. The scripts are based on data provided by the LinuxServer.io GitHub repositories. Please keep the following in mind. The scripts are not supported by LinuxServer.io The scripts are being generated so I cannot accept requests to add scripts Prerequisites A server …

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Portainer as alternative to Synology Docker GUI

What is Portainer? Portainer is a lightweight management application that allows you to easily manage your Docker environment through a web interface. If you haven’t installed Docker, please have a look at Using Docker on Synology NAS. Don’t forget to have a look at Portainer App Templates for LinuxServer.io Docker containers and install 140+ applications at …

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Portainer App Templates for LinuxServer.io Docker containers

These Portainer App Templates can be used to easily deploy LinuxServer.io Docker containers with predefined settings. The templates are based on data provided by the LinuxServer.io GitHub repositories. Please keep the following in mind. The templates are not supported by LinuxServer.io The templates are being generated so I cannot accept requests to add templates Prerequisites …

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