Restic is a cross-platform, free and open source program written in Go. We can use it to create compressed, encrypted and space efficient backups, since it is smart enough to archive only changed fragments of files. Restic can use many storage services as targets, such as Google Drive or AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3 buckets, but works also locally and over plain SFTP connections.
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How to install Brave on Linux
Brave is a free and open source web browser focused on providing a privacy-oriented setup by default. It is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, and it is based on chromium, which is also the open source foundation upon Google Chrome is built. Brave comes with useful built-in features such an ad-blocker, a private search engine, an integrated VPN, and Tor support.
How to orchestrate Borg backups with Borgmatic
Borgmatic is a free and open source configuration-driven wrapper around Borg, the secure and space-efficient archiver. Borgmatic allows us to orchestrate Borg backups by setting redundancy, rotations, hooks and many other things in a central place: an human-friendly and very well commented configuration file.
How to backup your git repositories with gickup
Git is by far the most used version control system out there. Originally created by Linus Torvalds, it is free and open source software, released under the GPLv2 license. Many online platforms such as Github or Gitlab allow developers to easily store and track changes in their code in public or private repositories using git as a backend.
Debian pinning how-to
Debian, also known as “the universal operating system”, is one of the oldest Linux distributions. At any point in time there are always three main Debian releases: stable, testing and unstable. The “stable” release represents the official Debian release: it is rock solid, ready for production, and contains packages which doesn’t change much. The “testing” release contains packages which are on their road to be accepted into stable, and finally, the “unstable” release is the one with the most updated versions of software, used for the distribution development.
How to create encrypted git repositories with git-remote-gcrypt
Git is, by far, the most used version control system. Being it “distributed”, means that each user can clone its own full copy of a repository on which he can work even if offline, pushing changes to a remote only when ready. Git repositories are not designed to host sensitive information, but in certain situations, the ability of transparently encrypt the content of a repository can come in handy. The git remote-gcrypt helper is designed with this goal in mind.
How to install OnlyOffice Desktop Editors on Linux
OnlyOffice is an open source office suite compatible with both open and proprietary documents formats. The suite includes applications to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The “community” version of OnlyOffice is cost-free and can be installed both as a service, or in the form of classic desktop editors.
How to export repositories with the git-daemon
Git is probably the most used version control software in the world. Free and open source, it was created by Linus Torvalds, and it is the base of services provided by web platforms like Github and Gitlab. In a previous article we discussed the git workflow basics,