I hate to admit it, but I’ve screwed up many times throughout the years when it’s come to using computers. My first big “Oh shi!” moment came when I was about 8-years-old, goofing around on my ...

I hate to admit it, but I’ve screwed up many times throughout the years when it’s come to using computers. My first big “Oh shi!” moment came when I was about 8-years-old, goofing around on my ...

One of the things I love about Linux is that it comes with a huge suite of software and utilities that can be very powerful. Some of these utilities go un-noticed or are not widely known. In this ...

Our back up was successful. How to back up a local Linux directory to a remote Linux host with rsync Your email has been sent There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the ...

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 ...

Want to try Linux but dread the command line? Don't worry - there's likely a GUI that can handle whatever you need.

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) ...

Here is the deal. I just got a new Mac Mini as a file server/HTPC since my old server died. Before, I had a Linux box with 2 1TB drives in it and I just had an rsync script once a day copy from the ...

A simple rsync script to back up your home directory Your email has been sent Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data.