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duplicity -> Backblaze B2

Daily systemd timer to backup the contents of my filesystem to Backblaze B2. As-written, it will keep up to a year's worth of backups, performing one full backup every month. This script was tested with duplicity 3.0.3.

Configure the script

Create a B2 bucket and an application key with read/write permissions to that bucket. Configure object lock with a sufficiently long period (I use 3x the full backup period) to ensure that ransomware won't be able to nuke your backups. Also ensure the 'list all bucket names' option is enabled (unless you want to use the

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

	getHexColor = (color) ->
	return "" unless color
	return color if /^#/.test(color)
	rgbValues = getRGBValues(color)
	hexValues = rgbValues.map(numberToHex)
	"#" + hexValues.join("")

	numberToHex = (number) ->
	"0#{number.toString(16)}".slice(-2).toUpperCase()

	wget \
	--recursive \
	--no-clobber \
	--page-requisites \
	--no-check-certificate \
	--html-extension \
	--convert-links \
	--restrict-file-names=windows \
	--no-parent \
	--domains yourdomain.com \

	#!/bin/bash

	PARAMS=('-m 6 -q 70 -mt -af -progress')

	if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
	PARAMS=$@;
	fi

	cd $(pwd)

	'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the racks
	Not a server was alerting, not even Compaqs.
	The backups were written to tapes with care
	In hopes that later the data would be there.

	The machines were nestled all snug in their sleds
	Whilst visions of vengeance danced in their heads;
	And oncall in his three-wolf and I in my rack.
	Had just settled down for some syn and some ack.

	from tahrir_api.dbapi import TahrirDatabase


	db = TahrirDatabase('backend://badges:badgesareawesome@localhost/badges')

	badge_id = 'fossbox'
	person_email = '[email protected]'
	person_id = hash(person_email)
	issued_on = None

	class directory(object):
	""" pushd/popd context manager.

	Use like:

	>>> with directory("/tmp/"):
	... pass # do some stuff

	"""
	def __init__(self, newPath):

	import PIL
	from PIL import ImageFont
	from PIL import Image
	from PIL import ImageDraw
	font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf", 75)

	namelist = [
	# names go here
	]

	""" Run like: $ python coder-shell.py

	First you need to: $ pip install coderwall requests fabulous
	"""

	from coderwall import CoderWall
	import fabulous.image
	import fabulous.text
	import os
	import requests