Suppose you run a database as a service (DBaaS) for example in Azure. You have automated backups configured in case something bad happens. However these backups do not save you against a accidental database deletion as the backups get deleted, too!

Then there’s the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC). The …

Here I wrote about my initial attempts with Python. I started with a backup script for my home-computer because that’s what I needed at the time. Now I’m reviewing and tweaking it.

My considerations at the time of writing the initial script were:

• It should check if the …

UPDATE: I rewrote the whole script. You can find it here!

I wanted to get into Python recently and to have a reason to actually learn the language, I thought to myself, why not replace the bash-scripts I use on my private computer. I started with my backup script, that …