Dropping transfer rate costs per Gigabyte and faster connection speeds make the online storage niche attractive. One of the latest players to enter is AVG, developer of the popular antivirus solution. AVG announced the LiveKive service in February and promised that a beta would soon follow. The beta has just started and everyone who participates [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Create rsync backups easily with the help of Gadmin-rsync
Recently I covered one of the Gadmintools, Gadmin-Samba (see my article “Configure Samba with Gadmin-samba“). The Gadmintools set of tools is a set of GUI administration tools (hence the name “Gadmin”) for the Linux operating system that takes often-complex tasks and makes them far easier. One of those tasks is backing up with Rsync. Of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Back up your Apache web directory and database with this simple script
I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Do Specific Data Backups With Tame
Tame is a specialized backup solution that can monitor applications and perform backups once those applications close. It would for instance be possible to monitor Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer and make a backup of the profiles once the applications are closed by the user. Other variants include instant messengers and their logs, ftp clients, [...]