Category Archives: System administration

Backups are important, yet I’m lazy and forgetful. To remedy this, I wanted the USB backups I do periodically to be as easy as possible: when I plug in a drive with a `backup` partition, the backup script replication should … Continue reading →

I recently found myself needing to restore data from a backup of an ecryptfs-encrypted Ubuntu home partition. This didn’t go as smoothly as when testing backup restoration (in part because ecryptfs has since fallen out of favor, replaced by LUKS), … Continue reading →