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rsync backup only over night

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it is kinda nice to have a rsync job running while the bandwidth is not needed otherwise. start a main script each night (using cron) the main script uses t...

rsync backup script

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everyone needs a rsync backup script at some point in their life ;)   this is the one i wrote in the last couple minutes/hours/days/years ... it syncs a loca...

exiftool: renaming pictures

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rename pictures according to their exifdata time stemp: [code] exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%%c.%%e" . [/code] ...

firefox: beef up privacy

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change the user agent string: open: about:config add the following: right click -> new -> string: general.useragent.override input string (e.g., mos...

raspi: log network traffic (vnstat)

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to monitor the network traffic one can use the tool vnstat install vnstat setup database for interface: vnstat -u -i eth0 start/enable service usage: update...