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Setup automatic backups and email alerts with Duplicity and Logwatch With Ubuntu 12.04

Submitted by Pavel Karoukin on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 00:00

I am using Duplicity to automate off-site backups. What I wasn't doing before - checking integrity of remote backup. Due nature of backing up to remote location, it quite possible to have issues like half uploaded files, corrupted files, missing files, etc. I wanted to have something in place to check backup right after backup procedure is finished and email me if there are any differences.

Happy time with recent GRUB2 update with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Submitted by Pavel Karoukin on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:00

My short story of dealing with failed grub2 install which rendered my server unbootable.

It was all good till recent update of grub2. Apparently it no longer fits into MBR and I missed related warnings. Or may be I had grub-legacy. I do not know honestly, but in result I had un-bootable remote server.

Using rescue mode (which is like Live-CD, but instead of GUI gives you SSH access so you could restore your server) I was able to get into server and try to update grub. Here is what I got for grub-install /dev/sda:

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