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I’ve been using Dropbox for our offsite backup solution for a while and its worked well , the only issue was that for total offsite security it relied upon another user managing their limited Dropbox storage space.

So instead I am now uploading them to MegaUpload instead.
RapidShare would work just as well and could also be used concurrently for double the security.

This method has the advantages of :-

• Auto-Pruning – the files get deleted 90 days after the last download.
• Unlimited storage.
• Publicly accessible to anyone knowing the URL via a browser.

By being publicly accessible you need to make sure any data is encrypted , but we all do that anyway , right ?
You may want to use a password protected RAR file , I am using decent encryption algorithms via GPG.

This script require you have mail , GPG and Plowshare setup.

Here is my backup_databases_to_megaupload script :-

Make sure you change :-
XXXXXXXX = Your MegaUpload username.
YYYYYYYY = Your MegaUpload password.
OFFSITEEMAILS = email addresses (separated by commas) of your offsite contacts who will download and store the backup files.

I’ve put together a little bash script to manage sabnzbd+ from the command line.

So far it can :-

• Pause
• Resume
• Change Download Rate , no value defaults to rate set in config file

Any improvements or suggestions can be left in the comments or contact me directly.

#!/bin/sh
#
# script to manage sabnzbd+ from the command line

APIKEY=accf3f76184de6c221851684dfbe8a61
SERVER=http://core3.collective-b.dyndns.org:8080/sabnzbd
CONFIGFILE=/home/mark/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
DEFAULTRATE=`grep bandwidth_limit $CONFIGFILE | awk '{ print $3 }'`

if [ -z $1 ];
     then
     echo "Please enter some parameters , You can :-"
     echo "pause - Unending Pause"
     echo "pause xx - Pause for xx Minutes"
     echo "resume - Continue after Pause"
     echo "rate - Set the Download Rate , defaults to Rate set in configuration file"
     echo "rate xxx - Set Download Rate to xxx"
fi

case "$1" in
'pause')
if [ -z $2 ];
    then
    echo "Unending Pause"
    /usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "$SERVER/api?mode=pause&apikey=$APIKEY"
    else
    echo "Timed Pause , Resuming after $2 minutes"
    /usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "$SERVER/api?mode=config&name=set_pause&value=$2&apikey=$APIKEY"
fi
;;
'rate')
RATE=$2
if [ -z $RATE ];
    then
    RATE=$DEFAULTRATE
fi
echo "Setting Download rate to $RATE"
/usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "$SERVER/api?mode=config&name=speedlimit&value=$RATE&apikey=$APIKEY"
;;
'resume')
/usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "$SERVER/api?mode=resume&apikey=$APIKEY"
;;
'shutdown')
/usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "$SERVER/api?mode=shutdown&apikey=$APIKEY"
;;
esac

Make sure you update the variables for your setup.