backup

Backing up your computer is very important indeed. How to do it with Linux using a simple script.

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The importance of backing up your computer can not be understated. This is an integral part of using a computer, judging by the outages of various cloud backup services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services it is not a good idea to only use a cloud service like Google Drive or Skydrive to store … Read more

How to use the command line to change GTK settings easily.

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The settings used by the file chooser in MATE or Gnome can be changed easily with the command line. The gsettings utility makes this easy. This example will alter the Firefox file chooser, it will have directories listed first, in descending order, sorted by date modified. gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-column ‘modified’ gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-order … Read more

Back up your home directory easily with this simple script.

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Back up your home directory with this simple script. This will concatenate all of your files into one tar archive, then compress it into a gzipped file. Firstly, install the required applications. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/Documents] └─$ sudo apt install pv pigz┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/Documents] └─$ sudo apt install pv pigz This is the backup script I am using. This will … Read more

Unsecured websites are still a thing in November 2019.

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It is still possible to find anything on the Internet. Backups of websites containing passwords and information. It is all out there, and not everyone is getting the message that this is a bad idea. This could be used to harvest e-mail addresses and decrypt passwords. Do not store website backups in publically accessible directories. … Read more

How to backup your home directory easily with the rsync command.

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How to use rsync to backup your home directory or whole system and skip directories that are not required to be backed up. This simple rsync command will backup the contents of your home directory to a folder on a removable drive. This command will exclude various system folders if you wish to backup the … Read more

Keeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external housing for backups.

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Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing Linux to. I remember I installed Mandrake Linux once onto a 80 Gigabyte hard disk and due to the large capacity … Read more

Cloud based user accounts backup in Windows 8 Enterprise; how Linux could benefit from this sort of infrastructure.

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I have just installed the Windows 8 Enterprise 90 day trial and first impressions are quite positive. After logging into Windows the first time using your Windows Live account your desktop is setup and then you are presented with a Metro interface. But when you format and re-install the operating system you only need to … Read more

Using the free Clonezilla software to image a Windows machine to distribute across a network.

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The free Clonezilla Linux distribution allows the creation and distribution of disk images allowing the Administrator of a room full of computers to create a good fresh installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system and all associated software and then to distribute that image to all other computers in the room. This will greatly simplify … Read more

Computer tape drives coming back to the computers of 2012.

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Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded on and then read at … Read more