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Backups Filesystems Linux Tips and tricks

Quick Tip for umount

Sometimes learning a new thing can be the result of my innate curiosity.

David Both
January 3, 2026December 31, 2025
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Backups Linux Open Source

15 Essential Open-Source Backup Utilities to Protect Your Data

Protecting your data has never been more crucial. With the advent of hybrid work, cloud-native applications, and ransomware threats, reliable backup solutions are indispensable for...

Don Watkins
December 3, 2025December 2, 2025
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Backups Linux Linux Philosophy

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 19—Backup everything frequently

Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 21 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with some changes to update the...

David Both
April 2, 2025July 6, 2025
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Personal backups with ‘rsync’

Make backups of your personal data in case your laptop is lost, stolen, or damaged.

Jim Hall
January 20, 2025January 20, 2025
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Backups Bash Command Line In Depth Linux

How my easy, home-made backup program saves time, space on the storage medium, and network bandwidth

Nothing can ever go wrong with my computer and I will never lose my data. Riiiiight.

This article discusses the backup program I created to prevent catastrophic data loss and facilitate easy recovery. I also show how you can install and use it yourself.

David Both
June 19, 2024June 14, 2024
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Backups Command Line Linux

Using tar and ssh for backups

Couples complement each other and each member of the couple contributes unique and irreplaceable parts to the whole. But some couples are very odd. Such is the case with this couple of commands – the tar and ssh commands.

David Both
April 4, 2024September 14, 2025
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Adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later.

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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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