Update 2015-08-18: Boy do I feel silly! It turns out there’s a much simpler and much more robust way of doing what I’ve done with the scripts below. It turns out that, using any revision control system (eg. cvs, git, svn) that stores revisions as deltas (and most if not all do), all you need…
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Duplicity – Pleasure and Simplicity in Your Backups
Update 2016-02-13: I’m now making use of Duplicity’s “–full-if-older-than” backup option and the “remove-all-but-n-full” clean up mode to keep a moving window of 3 months of backups. This way your backups don’t keep growing and growing. I’ve updated the examples in below. Duplicity – Pleasure and Simplicity in Your Backups If you’re like me, you’ve…
Better Colour Schemes for PuTTY
Update 2014-09-20: Try the Consolas font instead of the default Courier New. It’s slightly smaller but still quite readable and permits a narrow 80×40 window which I can lay out side-by-side 3 times on my desktop (1920×1080) without overlapping. That’s something you can’t do with Courier New at 80×40. Give it a try under Putty…