Linux Today - Storage

 HowToForge: While Google Drive is no doubt one of the most popular (if not the most popular) cloud storage services available today, what's really sad is that there is no official Drive client available for Linux.

RockMongo is a free, open source GUI database administration tool for MongoDB, just like phpMyAdmin to MySQL/MariaDB.

GlusterFS is a free and open source file and object storage solution that can be used across the physical, virtual and cloud servers over the network.

A step by step guide about how to install MongoDB in Debian, CentOS, openSUSE, Ubuntu.

 For database management, there is a very popular tool called, MySQL Workbench.

 Yandex.Disk has a native Linux client.

Linux.com: When you’re looking for a tool to handle a bare metal backup, you may need to look no further than the dd command.

InfoWorld: A new release of the MaxScale database proxy -- essential to deploying MariaDB at scale -- features a proprietary license

 Nixcraft: The secure removal of data is not as easy as you may think.

 webupd8: Rclone is like Rsync for the cloud.

 tecmint: Clonezilla is one of the most popular backup tools for Linux.

Nixcraft: Disk cloning is nothing but a mere process of creating an image of an entire disk.

Disk imaging and cloning doesn't require an expensive tool, or proprietary one.

 tecmint: How to mount a remote Linux filesystem or directory using SSHFS over SSH protocol

The Sparky Backup System project consists of the sparky-backup-core and sparky-backup-sys commands

LinuxJournal: GParted is a nice tool for managing disk partitions in Linux.

TechRepublic: Developers of the Nextcloud server have included the ability to add email to the platform. Follow these steps.

 webupd8: If you prefer doing things from the command line, transfer.sh (no, that's not a script, it's a website) is for you.

Déjà Dup offers just about any feature you’d need in a simple backup solution

 FOSSforce: At first glance, Tresorit's end-to-end file sharing service looks like it might be able to overcome its proprietary nature and win favor with some Linux users.

Phoronix: The Btrfs "enospc-rework" that's been in development for several months by Facebook's Josef Bacik is landing with the Linux 4.8 kernel.

ownCloud 9.1 Community Edition is now the latest stable and most advanced release of the ownCloud Server

ostechnix: Systemback allows you to restore Ubuntu Desktop and Server to previous working state.

Sanoid helps to recover from what Jim Salter likes to call "Humpty Level Events."

ZDnet: The ownCloud infrastructure-as-a-service cloud fork, Nextcloud, is charging forward with new feature

Google Drive is a very popular cloud storage service.

The Passmark Memtest86 boots in two different modes: a Legacy BIOS mode and a UEFI aware mode.

Thin Provisioning allows us to create the larger logical volumes than the available disk space.

 nixcraft: The Z File System (ZFS) was originally designed at Sun Microsystem. It is an advanced file system and logical volume manager.

This article will show you some basic, yet useful tips how to optimize the fine tune the performance of MySQL/MariaDB.

 FOSSbytes: Is Btrfs a 'better' filesystem?

eWEEK: Nextcloud, a fork of the popular open-source ownCloud storage project, takes its next steps.

There are several file comparison tools that you can use on Linux

HowToForge: This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running CentOS 7.

HowToForge: This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on CentOS 7.

 tecmint: Onionshare is an open source desktop utility that allows you to share files hosted on your own computer of any size securely and anonymously using the Tor browser on the other end.

TechRepublic: If you get tired of having to remount Windows shares when you reboot your Linux box, read about an easy way to make those shares permanently mount.

ZDnet: One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

Data loss is one of those things we never want to worry about