Howto export an encrypted borgbackup archive

Borgbackup is a deduplicating backup program with encryption and compresssion. It uses a sophisticated storage format to fullfill those features.

Each backup run is stored in a so called archive. Sometimes you may want to keep a specific archive in long term storage – indepenend of any specific software specific format – let say as regular tar file.

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Ubuntu 15.10 fulldisk encryption howto

The following howto has been partly stolen from somewhere else . I adapted it to my situation. The main setup is the same: The whole installation (swap + root fs + home) should reside in a single encrypted container so that at boot we only have to provide one password and hibernate is encrypted too. Only the bootloader is unencrpyted.

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Workaround für netzpolitik.org – Feed unter Tiny Tiny RSS

Seit kurzer Zeit wird in der ttrss-Installation auf einem debian 6 (Squeeze) – System der Feed von netzpolitik.org nicht mehr aktualisiert. Stattdessen erscheint folgender Fehler:

Couldn’t download the specified URL: 35 error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

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