I started off wanting to spin up a simple Ubuntu 18-LTS box that had a few utils to help with recovery. But, for some reason, VMs on the box I'm trying to host from are restricted to 32bits. Okay, just snag a 32bit install media, right? Beep beep, try again -- no more install media for 32bit in 18+. Okay, so temp we'll go back an LTS rev, and use 16-LTS, even though that is getting old. But now Python is too old to support some tools, like the AWS cli I was hoping to use for remote files. After a few painful swerves, I finally get a recent version of Python working, but there is still something that AWS is not happy to install because of. I then pivot to Boto, which is the API version of the CLI interface. This actually works after some typos, and alows me to really control automagically and list, identify and download files that are needed. The second part here is decrypting, or the way we change random looking bits into something that has value, so we can restore or otherwise action things. For this, I'm using gpg but I have to write some scripts to be able to automate this. I've done a couple of these by hand, so I know the concept works, but to make sure this works well and in an emergency restore, we'll need the guard rails provided by scripts.