Backup data to remote SFTP server

http://grysz.com/2011/04/04/configure-amazon-s3-backup-with-backupninja-and-duplicity/ Data backup plan: * pick desired directories with your data you want to backup * you may backup system directories of your choice (in principle /etc /root /home /usr/local /srv etc.) * optionally you may backup MySQL database Used tools (tested on Debian Jessie and Ubuntu 12.04): * BackupNinja 0.9.10 – for MySQL database … Read more

XScreenSaver without keyboard layout indicator workaround

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644534 From: Ilya Sheershoff Subject: A workaround for keyboard layouts The following worked for me (Debian Jessie with XFCE 4.10 or Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME 2.30): 1. Created folder: mkdir ~/.startup 2. And a file: touch ~/.startup/xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl 3. Chmodded it: chmod 755 ~/.startup/xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl 4. Edit (copy&paste the code below): nano ~/.startup/xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl #!/usr/bin/perl my $blanked = 0; … Read more