Using GPG to encrypt backups
If you’re doing off-site backups (and if you’re not, you should), you’ve probably wondered how much you trust the place you’re uploading to. Fortunately publ...
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I’ve moved
After a long deliberation, I’ve finally moved my blog away from Wordpress. It’s nothing against you Wordpress, I just want to have a little more control. See...
Simple Rsnapshot backup over FTPS
In this post I’ll walk you through setting up a simple backup solution using Rsnapshot and CurlFTPfs to retrieve files from an FTP/FTPS server. The result is...
Some notes on backup
I’ve been extolling the virtues of backup a lot recently, which has led to a few interesting conversations (and a lot of people rolling their eyes and going ...
Refactoring a directory into a git submodule
To release the Rsnapshot Puppet module I needed to extract the module directory from our entire Puppet configuration Git repository (we know it’s wrong, but ...