Sparse files are basically just like any other file except that blocks that only contain zeros (i.e., nothing) are not actually stored on disk. This means you can have an apparently 16G file – … more →
UNIX Administratospherertnpro wrote 2 days ago: On 14 July, 2009, me ( Ratnadeep Debnath aka rtnpro) and Meejanur Rahaman ( aka meejan) and Kishan G … more →
rtnpro wrote 4 days ago: Today, 13th July, 2009, we ( me , i.e., Ratnadeep Debnath aka rtnpro, Kishan Goyal, Meejanur Rahaman … more →
rforge wrote 2 weeks ago: Wow, I am just so enthusiastic after 5 min of Google! I was wonderning for quite a while, how to mak … more →
lane memory wrote 3 weeks ago: Think of rsync as simply a copy command that can copy between systems. It’s most like rcp in i … more →
rforge wrote 3 weeks ago: Rethorical question: What happens if your harddrive fails … right now!? I never came to experi … more →
pashkasan wrote 4 weeks ago: so we have windows working machine with apache mysql ..etc ,ie project development box .. and a unix … more →
monipol wrote 1 month ago: In Fink parlance, a distribution is a set of available packages which depends, amongst other things, … more →
Wildan Maulana wrote 1 month ago: http://www.evbackup.com/support-rsync-setup-windows/ … more →
fmeyer wrote 1 month ago: I always forget the amazing rsync between a remote and my local disk rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser … more →
Vijay Dev wrote 1 month ago: Got a laptop and not blogging at all ? What the hell am I doing ?! Actually I wanted to write about … more →
abuhawa wrote 2 months ago: In my previous post, I did mention that I had my DNS-323 Maxtor 500GB HDD fail to work and got it se … more →
ioconnor wrote 2 months ago: What’s the best way to move data between two machines? As in migrating off this laptop and on … more →
Daniel wrote 2 months ago: My hard drive begins to make strange noises, so I decided to make a whole system backup today. Unfor … more →
yungchin wrote 2 months ago: Let me tell you up front: the following is a respin of information I found elsewhere. And it was ver … more →
webhostrepo wrote 2 months ago: I) How to change MySQL data directory with minimal downtime. Install a new drive, format, partition … more →
sanjaydalal4u wrote 2 months ago: RSync backups data and does it very clean and well. Rsync only transfers those data that have been m … more →
Tom wrote 2 months ago: So, you SSH, SCP or rsync into many different servers all the time, and you can’t remember all … more →
spiralofhope wrote 3 months ago: For a very very long time, I’ve wanted a proper backup solution for Linux. It’s simple, … more →
aperturefever wrote 3 months ago: Bored and tired of using plain cp/rsync to backup my data so i started looking around for a backup s … more →