Simple incremental remote backup

Inspired by the thousands of backup scripts available I created my own script. It has the following main features:

  • Based on rsync and ssh
  • Incremental (using hard links)
  • Easy recovery (using any (visual) scp client like dolphin)
  • No additional local space required.

Still some features are missing:

  • Compression (each file is stored individually but only as hardlink of nothing changed)
  • Encryption (I’d like to have an automatic per-file gpg encryption)

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Page migration

After several weeks of downtime I decided to drop my old custom-hacked Plone/Zope page in favor of a 08/15 WordPress blog. Maybe it encourages me to post more stuff than I did before because it is much easier to use. Well, the main reson to do this now was simply that I broke my little finger before Eastern and it was raining all day ;-)