I recently migrated all of my hosted applications (including this site mustak.im) to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Even though it's relatively easy to get something like Azure App Service and deploy ASP.NET Applications there but I find managing my own Private App and Build Server more appealing.

I needed to have a reliable backup since disaster can happen anytime (as I'm managing the server on my own) but I did not want to pay for commercial solutions. I'm not making money out of my sites (these are my dev works, experiments in progress...) so I have access to any free software. However, I wanted to roll out something really simple, fast and light on my own - without installing a beast of a backup software.

Since it is too difficult to login to my router's console to check total bandwidth usage so far, I spent almost an hour trying to write my first shell script that logins to NowTV router console and extract total bandwidth usage for me. I must say any sort of automation is fun!

Here is the script

There's an excellent cross platform command line tool available called Git-TF. In a nutshell, it will let you clone an existing TFS managed project and initialize a local git repository. You can then hook itself to a remote Git repository (Gothub, Bitbucket etc.) and push the code along with all the commit / checkin history. I just moved one of my projects from TFS VCS to TFS Git in less than 30min in Mac running macOs.