Kategoriearchive: Backup


gpg: decryption failed: No secret key 2

When decrypt a gpp-file (gpg-d file.gpg> file) i got the error-message “gpg: decryption failed: No secret key”. It’s funny, the key is certainly there. A simple chmod o + rw $ (tty) has helped. Apparently gpg has inside the su environment a few problems. Sure, you can also set the […]


using ncftp-client for background ftp-transfers

I use for my ftp backups always ncftspooler. It´s a part of NcFTP Clients, which runs as a daemon und moves on request files to ftp-server. The installation is very simple: wget ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2 tar xfj ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2 cd ncftp-3.2.5 ./configure make make install mkdir /root/.ncftp mkdir /root/.ncftp/spool To start ncftpspool simply […]


rsnapshot remote

To save my data i use locally and remotely besides ftp backups rsnapshot. Thus, the data of the server are backed up every 2 hours on the disc. For a conventional backup it´s not enough – is the disk or the server off, then the backups are gone. But changes […]