Remastersys: Create your own customized ubuntu derivative

Ever wondered how you can create a backup of your Ubuntu Installation with all the applications you installed which you 've collected af...Read more »

Syncronized Folders across Windows and Linux - (Cloud-)Free Encrypted Cross-Platform Synchronisation with Unison

I always wanted to sync a few folders of my system across all my computers. E.g. the my scripts directory, where I constantly fiddle with my...Read more »

Backup your Ubuntu!

So you have spent some time setting up your Ubuntu Karmic, or even spent months or years working on your machine and don't know what to ...Read more »

Automatic Backups on Linux (IBM)

Darn them. They just wrote the article I was planning to write and get famous with: Automatic backups over SSH with Keychain and Scp... well...Read more »

Parted Magic - A great bootable Linux CD for exhaustive Partitioning and Backups

Parted Magic doesn't only come with a fresh graphical parted and partimage, Testdisk, ext3grep and support even for reiser4 and ntfs-3g...Read more »

Rescue Important Data with ddrescue

ddrecue is better than dd, dd_rescue or dd_rhelp if you want to (try to) backup what's possible from a broken (hard or compact) disc. I...Read more »

Backup your File System Better with FSArchiver

Interesting you hardly hear anything about the program. FSArchiver supports many important features, including multi-threaded compression a...Read more »

A Tiny Backup Script with Rsync

This script lets you easily mirror a local directory to foreign computers that have rsync installed - securely via ssh. It assumes you have ...Read more »

Backup with Rsync

There's a nice article about backups with rsync at Linux.com. I shall leave the explanations to it and just post my script as example h...Read more »

Backup Partitions to a Bootable Partimage DVD

Looking for exactly that I found a nice quick little howto, which is written for Windows, but only uses Linux tools: http://ping.windowsdrea...Read more »

Migrating mails from old server to new server

I have done migrating my users' mails to new server. dbmail saves all mails into database (in my case mysql), backing up and restoring ...Read more »