I use flexget with the main_file_only option, so that it only downloads the main file of video torrents. This works great for things that are downloaded via RSS. But whenever I download something manually it usually includes dumb nfo files, txt files, sample files, etc. So I made a script to run fro...

Whenever I set up a boot drive that's not going to be backed up by any secondary drive I usually set up the OS, any hardware drivers and necessary software, then boot from a clonezilla usb stick and make a backup of the drive at that point. The clonezilla backup is compressed, so if you have a 30 gi...

What are you guys using for monitoring? I'm using monit, which watches over processes, load, disk usage, etc, and then does what it's supposed to do on its own. If a process dies, monit can restart it. So it does a lot of work so that I don't have to do it. The monit site is http://mmonit.com/ , and...