What do you do when you KNOW your hard disk is failing but you’re not ready to do a re-install or lose any of that precious data? Obviously the first solution is to always have a backup of your data. This is great, but it doesn’t solve the issue of having to re-install the operating [...]
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Save partitions across a network with Partimage
In my last article I showed you how to save a partition from a drive to a local image file using the Partimage tool (see my article “Copy partitions on your system with Partimage“). And although (as a reader did point out) Partimage is limited by not supporting ext4 file systems, it still has plenty [...]
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Copy partitions on your system with Partimage
Partimage is a unique open source rescue tool in that it can be used as an installed application or as a stand alone rescue tool with SystemRescueCD. So if whether your system is working or not, Partimage might be able to save you. But what does Partimage do? Partimage saves partions (in various formats) to [...]
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Create a bootable CD of PloP Linux
PloP Linux is one of those small in size but large in features Live distributions that could, at some point, save your skin. It offers tons of tools to help you out of just about any situation and, because of the necessity to build the live version, allows you to add whatever tool you need. [...]
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How to import and export a database in MySQL
Lately I have been doing a lot of coverage of MySQL. Of course there are a lot of reasons for that – MySQL is as popular a database as it is flexible and reliable. And so far I’ve covered MySQL Workbench (see my article “Complete database administration package MySQL Workbench“), MySQL Administrator (see my article [...]
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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 [...]