Setting up trout (Debian home server)

Setting up my home server.

Install Debian

Partitioning

I keep /home in a seperate partition of the SSD so it was partitioned as follows:

  (parted)  print all                                                       
  Model: ATA ST2000LM007-1R81 (scsi)
  Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
  Partition Table: gpt
  Disk Flags: 
  
  Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
   1      1049kB  2000GB  2000GB  ext4
  
  
  Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB (nvme)
  Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 500GB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
  Partition Table: gpt
  Disk Flags: 

  Number  Start   End    Size    File system     Name  Flags
   1      1049kB  538MB  537MB   fat32                 boot, esp
   2      538MB   151GB  150GB   ext4
   3      151GB   451GB  300GB   ext4
   4      451GB   500GB  49.6GB  linux-swap(v1)        swap

Post Install

  1. Install ssh sudo apt install openssh-server. Use ssh-copy-id user@machine to copy public key over.

  2. Create LUKS Volume We are going to use /dev/sda1 with encryption so: 
      $ sudo apt install cryptsetup
  $ sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1
  $ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 img3
  $ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/img3
  $ sudo cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/img3
  3. Mount LUKS Volume. Use sudo blkid to identify /dev/sda UUID and create the following shell script: 
      #!/bin/bash
  sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXXXXX-843f-42c9-af34-b5cb43f73d00 img3 
  sudo mount /dev/mapper/img3 /srv

    If you aren’t using encryption you can just directly mount the disk by adding the below to /etc/fstab:

      UUID=XXXXXXXX-463c-4ae6-827a-368ab73cad88 /srv ext4 defaults 0 1

    Then mount disk:

      sudo mount -a
  4. Install samba 
    $ sudo apt install samba -y

    In /etc/samba/samba.conf add:

    [troutshare]
   path = /samba
   writeable = yes
   browsable = yes
   read only = no
   guest ok = no

    $ sudo systemctl restart smbd
  5. Set up cron job using crontab -e 
    0 5 * * * /srv/troutdisk/scripts/backup-to-cod-and-carp >/tmp/cronjob.out

    the script itself is

    #!/bin/bash
find /srv/troutdisk -print > /srv/troutdisk/data/WD3.index
rsync -avh --delete --progress /srv/troutdisk/ cod.local:/srv/coddisk/image/3
  6. Disable suspend /etc/systemd/sleep.conf with the following options 
    [Sleep]
AllowSuspend=no
AllowHibernation=no
AllowSuspendThenHibernate=no
AllowHybridSleep=no

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