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2014 Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity

Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity

If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore …

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2014 Calculate total filesize of multiple torrent files

Calculate total filesize of multiple torrent files

Quick script which lets you check if you have enough storage space to download all these sweet Linux distributions you already grabbed the .torrent file for. …

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2014 ScreenUpload: Automatically upload screenshots with scp

There are a lot of scripts and applications out there acomplishing the same task, most of them are probably more polished than what I came up with, but there …

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2014 Backup ZNC Logs automatically

This is a short script to automatically backup the ZNC logs from multiple remote servers to a local directory. If you want to run it on a system which isn't …

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2014 Setting up a new Munin slave node

Filing this away for future reference. Install munin from package sources apt-get install munin-node Add master node to allowed IPs vim …

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2014 Nginx, Wildcard SSL and Subdomains

I just setup SSL on all my *.notmyhostna.me domains and here's how I did it. Buy certificate First you need to buy a wildcard certificate, I bought one from …

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2014 Atlas of the Conflict

The Atlas of the Conflict is a beautiful book containing over 500 maps and diagrams providing both a great overview and very detailed information about the …

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2014 Mass renaming files - now with more Vim!

As it happens you sometimes end up with a bunch of files which you would rather rename to something else and it'd be pretty sweet to just rename them like you …

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2014 Recover photos from storage devices

Today I got asked if I could recover some photos from an accidentally formatted CompactFlash memory card. I knew about TestDisk already because I used it in …

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2014 Have you ever heard of Austria? - Kangaroo!

Sometimes I interview people on IRC and one of the questions I'm asking is: Have you ever heard of Austria? If you have, what are the first three words that …

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