Linux Today - Storage

Oracle Linux Kernel engineer Alan Adamson provides an introduction to connecting NVMe flash storage using TCP.

A storage design that checks whether the returned data is valid and not silently corrupted inside a storage system, designed with Linux components.

How about a sysadmin tool that helps you to "relax and recover?" ReaR does that.

In this tutorial we will learn a very useful technique we can use to perform incremental backups, and schedule them using the good old cron.

Clonezilla is one of the greatest open source backup tools for Linux.

There are terminal utilities available in Linux which can help you to manage hard disk bad sectors. You can scan and mark them as unusable as well using these utilities.

Learn how to securely run a MariaDB database container from the home directory.

Explore the Linux file system table and some configuration basics.

It's very easy (and equally essential) to automatically backup your important files without you having to remember to do so.

Rescuezilla 1.0.6 is the first release of this lightweight GNU/Linux distribution for backing up and rescuing operating systems to introduce a 64-bit version that features UEFI/SecureBoot support.

"Slaves" becomes "dependents" under the change.

The June 2020 Apps update ships with Kup 0.8, a hefty release that introduces a new way to store rsync type backups.

Cryptmount is a powerful utility that allows any user to access encrypted file systems on-demand under GNU/Linux systems without requiring root privileges.

What's so important about inodes that I need to keep an eye on them? Find out in this introductory article.

The Linux Mint distribution team put out another of their monthly updates, and this month was quite interesting with their anti-Snap plans.

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities

The latest release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 (UEK6) is based on Linux kernel version 5.4.

Autotrash is a utility that searches a trash folder on FreeDesktop.org for information about its contents and then deletes

 Linuxize: fdisk is a menu-driven command-line utility that allows you to create and manipulate partition tables on a hard disk.

Learn how to set up and configure VSFTPD

Watchman is an open source and cross-platform file watching service that watches files and records or performs actions when they change

nixcraft: Learn how to use the xz command in Linux, which offers better compression as compared to gzip/bzip2 command for compression and decompression

An in-depth look at the service and path units that make up systemd-tmpfiles and the configurations that ensure your system runs smoothly and stays clean

 Linuxize: Learn how to add a swap file on Ubuntu 20.04.

This guide will teach you how to find hard disk data transfer speed in Linux.

HowToForge: Seafile is an open-source file-hosting and cloud storage system similar to Dropbox

ostechnix: This guide lists various methods to find Hard disk drive details in Linux operating systems.

Tar is one of the most common tool used for archiving files in Linux.

Are your backups running too long?

 HowToForge: Learn how to install and configure the latest Nextcloud 18 release on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Block devices are significant components of the Linux kernel.

Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync

Learn how to setup NFS Server on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 system.

Learn how to copy a file to multiple locations.

Expand your sysadmin skills with this introduction to the parted command.

Though it has been around for decades fdisk is still the go to storage management tool.

itsFOSS: This beginner tutorial discusses a few difficulties you may face while adding files and folders on the desktop screen on Ubuntu.

Block device encryption is used to secure the data on a block device by encrypting it, and to decrypt data, a user must supply a passphrase or key to access.

ostechnix: Starting from Kernel version 2.6.29, Linux can automatically detect SSDs.