It is often inefficient to fire up a tape drive whenever you need to back up files or restore a backup. The Rsync tool pushes critical files to a second computer, where you can access them easily.
When backup jobs become too challenging for a script, the daemon-based free backup tool Bacula may be the answer.
Use a tarball to restore your system in next to no time – without a complete re-install.
Linux offers several options for fulfilling the RAID promise of fast hard disk access and data security.
Backups are a common topic, but you’ll hardly hear anyone mention safe data deletion.
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