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How Systeemkabouter handles his data backups

Posted on wo 24 februari 2021 in backup • Tagged with backups

This is not any sort of recommentation for anyone. It is my way of documenting the setup and maybe giving someone else a hint or idea how personal backup strategy might look like. As it is, it should provide adequate safeguards against the loss of the main storage or a …


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snapper as time machine alternative on Debian GNU/Linux

Posted on do 14 januari 2021 in desktop • Tagged with debian

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It must have been a year ago already that I reinstalled my Dell XPS laptop with Debian GNU/Linux. At install time I figured I really wanted to be able to snaphot filesystems, so I made sure I used btrfs as filesystem. Actually doing something with it was put …


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Allow Zabbix monitoring to switch office lights

Posted on di 29 december 2020 in hacking • Tagged with zabbix, python

As my wife is not a big fan of the colored Hue light bulbs, I removed a couple of them from the living room. One of the bulbs is now delivering pink, blue or red light in the bedroom of our youngest. The other bulb was moved to my home …


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Fiddling with Hue and Phue

Posted on di 29 december 2020 in hacking • Tagged with python

Somewhere in 2019 I bought some color capable Hue lights and installed them in the living room. The SO was not impressed. So for most of the time they were just used as normal dimmable lightning. For a brief moment I tried to do some manipulation with python but as …


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End of year cleanup

Posted on ma 28 december 2020 in news • Tagged with plan

So 2020 is finally coming to an end. Time for the traditional end of year digital assets cleaning / restructuring. I've decided to change the domain names in use for the last time, need to revisit web content on the corporate website some other time. The sliders have been pointing at …


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