Simple differential backups using rdiff-backup

As a user I want to have differential backups of my documents and git directories from my computer at work to my remote off-site server. Frequency of backups is one time a day at 1:00 AM. Retention policy is to keep backups 12 months. Install rdiff-backup on source computer and on destination server also. apt-get … Read more

Setup centralised Syslog server

Server Open access in UFW firewall port 514 tcp/udp: ufw allow from 192.168.122.0/27 port 514 mkdir /var/log/rsyslog chown root:adm /var/log/rsyslog The following code in 90-rsyslog.conf should be placed before the “*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/syslog” entry which is done using directive $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf in /etc/rsyslog.conf. Be sure you replace server-name below with the name of your central logging … Read more