It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I really like ZFS. Personally I think it is one of the biggest developments in file system design in many many years. One place where I’ve started to use it recently on my own home server is to make instant and consistent backups […]
rsync is one of those tools that you find new uses for every day. It is really just a fancy file mover but it has an amazing feature set. Among other things You can control bandwidth usage, resume operations, copy files over ssh and include and exclude files as you like.
In The Practice of System […]
One of the first things you learn is that backups are important and restores are even more important. Either you learn it by reading about it or most likely you learn it the hard way when you lose your data. Unfortunately most people won’t learn from their mistakes but they will continue to keep no […]
