Tag: Cron

Simple Duplicity S3 Script

Duplicity is a command line tool that performs encrypted incremental backups.  It supports a variety of file locations, including Amazon S3, and comes pre-installed on several Linux distributions.  Ubuntu’s backup application, Deja Dup, is a frontend for Duplicity that adds some convenient right-click functionality to the file explorer.  This works well on the home directory to quickly restore previous versions…

Jenkins Automation

Continuous integration and automated testing are essential to our internal operations, but two seemingly simple Jenkin’s features have evolved to be more important than we imagined – shell scripts and scheduled jobs.  They were glossed over from the beginning, we were in this for the CI after all.  Run bash scripts?  Yeah, why not.  Replace cron jobs?  OK, but cron’s…