I recently looked through my archives and was surprised to find that I hadn't blogged about this before as it's something I get quite passionate about.

Many companies try to set up proprietary standards in IT in an attempt to control the market. It's a horrible practice and needs to …

A while ago I wrote about learning from failure. This is a story of failure; Hardware failure, failure of design and failure of my self (The systems administrator) to not correct the issues earlier. It's hard to write about, but I believe that stories of failure can teach us just …

There is a problem with most cryptographic systems, it's not new and it affects most systems.

Most formal definitions of a "Perfect security" within cryptography (think One Time Pads) still allow for a few things to be leaked; the size of the messages, the sender and receiver of the messages …

For this setup I'm using Duplicati to backup to Backblaze. In a previous post I've written some instructions on setting up Backblaze.

Installing

To install Duplicati simply run

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/duplicati-latest.git
cd duplicati-latest
makepkg -si

Then enable and start the service

sudo systemctl enable duplicati …

For this setup I'm using Duplicati to backup to Backblaze. In a previous post I've written some instructions on setting up Backblaze.

SSH into the server

The first thing we have to do is to SSH into the server, because Duplicati will be running as a web service on port …