Crontab

Backing up stuff to the cloud is all the rage, and I wanted to give it a try. Since I don’t really want to spend any money on it, I decided to go with the best free provider I could find. I haven’t done too much research, but MEGA’s 50 free GB seems to be the best offer around. They also have a simple CLI tool called megatools (manual). Since I couldn’t find megatools in the official debian repo, I decided to use it from docker. There is no official docker container either, so I just grabbed one at the top (tomzo/megatools-docker). He has added two scripts of his own, which may be helpful if you want to see how megatools work (github), but I feel they are too clunky to use. ...

Crontab for renewal # m h dom mon dow command 15 3 * * * certbot renew --quiet --no-self-upgrade --pre-hook "systemctl stop nginx.service" --post-hook "systemctl start nginx.service" Docker alternative Note that if you run certbot in docker, you cannot use the –pre-hook and –post-hook as the other services cannot be changed through the docker container. Instead, you should create a script file, where you run the –pre-hook before the command and –post-hook afterwards ...