====== Create encrypted tar backups and store them on the amazon S3 cloud ======
Amazon S3 provides ... which makes it an ideal solution for storing backups. But to make use of it, you need a piece of soft... 3: create buckets, list the contents of a bucket, upload and download files, etc. And aws, a simple co... now ready to go. To create a bucket for your backup use the aws mkdir command (replacing BUCKET with
====== Simple backup procedure for windows (c't bff) ======
Backing up your files should be fast and easy, so that you make a backup every day (or at least weekly if you are lazy and... mputer magazine c't]], a simple and efficient backup script was presented, which has some unique featu
====== Remove Ubuntu Jaunty update manager popup ======
For those who are using Ubuntu Jaunty, you will notice that there is a change in the way the system notifies you to upgrade software. In the past, an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available. In Ubuntu Jaunty, instead of showi
====== MBR copy, backup and restore ======
MBR Total Size
446 + 64 + 2 = 512
Where,
446 bytes - B... MBR boot code only with the contents of $mbr.backup.file.
* Use 512 bytes to overwrite or restore y... 's partition table) with the contents of $mbr.backup.file.
dd command to copy MBR (identically sized ... mand Example
Linux sfdisk command can make a backup of the primary and extended partition table as fo
====== Remote debian updates using apt-dater ======
Apt-dater is a relatively new utility that allow... an servers from a central control server. I wrote up the necessary steps below, as the existing instru... ww.ibh.de/apt-dater/) are slightly unclear on a couple of things.
We run Debian stable (currently len... kports main
add the backports repo key
apt-get update; apt-get install debian-backports-keyring; ap
====== Backuppc: script archive all hosts ======
[[http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/|BackupPC]] is a very powerful utility for central backup of servers and workstations.
Since all backupc wil
====== How to create a Zotero group for cooperation ======
Zotero (www.zotero.org) is a great, open b... ee version includes limited storage (which can be upgraded for a yearly fee). Zotero integrates well w... LibreOffice.
To share a bibliography in a workgroup, the group function can be used. Many of these functions can be done in the Firefox Zotero plugin, He
see known issue 2 below).
2. You need to have a supported fingerprint reader. See the list at http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Supported_devices. You may ignore columns Vendor and ... s the Vendor ID and yyyy the Product ID. Another supported device, not listed at the above website, is... -repository ppa:fingerprint/fprint
>sudo apt-get update
>sudo apt-get upgrade
3. Install fprint-dem
ive with 4GB (STARTSTICK)
* A current full backup of the computer you are using
Installing Debian ... eed to enter the BIOS and choose a temporary startup device and/or add the usb stick to the boot optio... ee contrib
...
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* Then do ''sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree''
===== Optimizing performan
ill overwrite the content)
touch file - create or update file
cat > file - places standard input into ... ll occurrences of foo with bar in file
sed -i.backup 's/food/bar/g' file - replaces all occurrences of foo with bar in file after backing up file as file.backup
rm {m,M}yfile - remove files according to a pattern
Example:
$ ls
$ touch myfile
====== Configure backuppc with a non-root account ======
backuppc is an excellent automated backup tool. One flaw it has is that the default configuration requires a... h root login. This is easy to fix. Think of a backuppc username for all your client systems. In the fo
====== How To Setup a DavMail Exchange Gateway on a Debian 7 VPS ======
===== Introduction =====
[[h... /etc/davmail.properties
To have a proper startup job is better, of course:
Create a new file with... tc/init.d/davmail
sudo service davmail start
sudo update-rc.d davmail defaults</code>
===== Client Co... to configure your E-mail clients.
==== Mail setup ====
Create a new account, using the "manual" op
====== Install Windows codecs and support for encrypted dvds in ubuntu ======
Install Mplayer in Ubun... ies
Now you need to run the following command to update the source list
sudo apt-get update
Install w32 video codecs and libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)
Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats has been
