Hello all, I am administering a small server for my research group at work. Right now we have 1 computer backed up periodically onto a removable harddrive, which is a hastle because it takes 5h to do ...

Sometimes Linux tools are just better.

Say I've got a Windows server whose files I want to have backup automatically to a remote linux server weekly. I see on the cygwin site that it comes w/ rysnc (at least I think that's what I'm seeing) ...

Rsync shows up in almost every serious backup discussion, yet it is often dismissed as old, unfriendly, or outdated compared to modern backup tools with polished interfaces. I have tried a lot of ...

One of my favorite utilities on the Linux command-line, and block storage is one of my favorite features on Linode's platform, so in this article I get to combine both of these together - because what ...