Restic Backup for Windows Client
2021-02-21Completing my series on restic backup solutions, this post describes how to automate Restic backups on Windows. The technique I present below uses Windows Task Scheduler to automatically execute a PowerShell script at a designated time. The primary script and its configuration are kept as separate files to permit use of the configuration in both interactive and non-interactive modes. Configuration file The configuration file, config.ps1 mirrors the setup I’ve used on my Linux systems in previous posts.
Software architecture for the Open Source All Sky Camera (OSASC)
2020-11-27Initial architecture was written as a single python script discovered that the pi didn’t have enough horsepower to do that split script into multiple parallel processes that communicate using ZeroMQ messages introduced some custom C code to interface with Python Architecture
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