I recently needed to quickly archive several hundred directories, and their contents into separate, compressed files named after the directories. The horribly slow way to do this would be to either right-click each directory and select “create archive” via the File Manager, or, via the command line, to manually run tar several hundred times
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The last few days I have been testing backup software to automatically backup my desktop Ubuntu system. I’ve only just got it set up, but rdiff-backup is exactly what I was looking for and seems to be working very well.
rdiff-backup tries to “combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup”. It’s [...]
This tutorial explains how to install and use Back In Time
on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for
Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is
done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.
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This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup
on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data
back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to
use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe
(keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before
proceeding in any data manipulation ), [...]
BackerUpper
is a tool similar to Apple’s TimeMachine. It is intended to create
snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive.
From the BackerUpper project page: “Backerupper is a simple
program for backing up selected directories over a local network. Its
main intended purpose is backing up a user’s personal data.” This article shows how to install and [...]
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”.The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.Keep in mind that Back In Time is just a GUI. The real magic is done by rsync (take snapshots and restore), diff (check if somethind changed) and [...]
The recent release of DRBD 8.3 now includes The Third Node
feature as a freely available component. This document will cover the
basics of setting up a third node on a standard Debian Etch
installation. At the end of this tutorial you will have a DRBD device
that can be utilized as a SAN, an iSCSI target, a file [...]
This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main
web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take
over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x
minutes if there is something to [...]
It is a misconception to think that all the emails in your Gmail account are safe and will be there forever. In the events that Gmail is down, or for some reasons, you were banned by Google, you won’t be able to access all your emails and all of them will be gone forever. To [...]
mylvmbackup
is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s
snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a
read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates
a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and
unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it [...]
After countless hours of configuring, tweaking, installing new applications onto your Ubuntu system, the last thing that you want to do is to reformat and start everything all over again. Remastersys is here to save you all this trouble. Remastersys is a simple and easy to use application that allows you to easily clone and [...]
MySQL 5.1 is generally available for production use. One of the key features of
MySQL 5.1 is partitioning. This how to shows how to install and configure Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL (ZRM)
2.1 to perform backup and recovery of MySQL partitioned tables.
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QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc.Complete list as follows.
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What can go wrong with your wonderfully running website / blog? Everything..
Your online abode is so difficult to keep secured. It can get hacked, you may install something wrong, a wrong configuration can wreak havoc, the server hard disk might crash, natural calamities, and what not. Your best option to secure yourself against all this [...]
This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live.
CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer;
it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar
to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and can be
transferred to a Samba-, SSH-, or NFS server [...]