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Running duplicity backups again

Posted on ma 27 december 2021 in servers • Tagged with debian, backups

Some years back I had a rather complete puppet setup managing relatively small set of servers for personal use and some small business customers. In that setup I had a completely automated way of configuring duplicity backups to some server I rented somewhere safe, using puppet code and puppet external …


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Hoe Systeemkabouter zijn backups fixed

Posted on wo 24 februari 2021 in backup • Tagged with backups

Dit document is geenzins een advies aan anderen. Het is mijn manier om de setup te documenteren en anderen wellicht te inspireren om hun backup ook goed te regelen. Wie weet pik je er nog iets van op. Zoals het nu ingericht is, zou het ons redelijke bescherming tegen verlies …


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How Systeemkabouter handles his data backups

Posted on wo 24 februari 2021 in backup • Tagged with backups

This is not any sort of recommentation for anyone. It is my way of documenting the setup and maybe giving someone else a hint or idea how personal backup strategy might look like. As it is, it should provide adequate safeguards against the loss of the main storage or a …


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Encrypted backups using duplicity

Posted on za 08 april 2017 in services • Tagged with backups

This is just a short note on my experiences running backups with Duplicity.

Duplicity is an open source package that allows you to do incremental backups, complete with proper indexing, to remote storage. This can be a modern ‘cloud’ storage like S3, but I prefer to run it over a …


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Data synchronisation using Unison

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with backups

Some time ago I found a small utility called unison. I used it for some time to sync my homedir on a Linux box to my Windows laptop, but later decided to go with the Winows built-in 'Offline files' thingie (bad idea, don't do it).

What is Unison?

Unison resembles …


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