Yesterday, at the office, we had a client come to use needing to merge two 20 Gig directories of data together. Naturally I chimed in saying “I’m sure Linux can do that with a simple shell script”! Of course neither the client or my fellow workers wanted to deal with a shell script. So, instead, [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Backup with rsnapshot
If you are looking for a command line utility to handle all of your Linux backup needs, you really need look no further than this tool that bases itself off of the perennial backup favorite rsync. Rsnapshot takes the rsync utility and makes it more useful than it already was. With rsnapshot you can retain multiple [...]
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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 [...]