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Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager
(May 13, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1032 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "If somebody accidentally drops a critical table in MySQL, the application no longer works. The solution to this problem is to utilize the (open source) Zmanda Recovery Manager..."

Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For
(May 12, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (6562 reads) (19 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."

Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery
(May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (2578 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"

Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives
(May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1553 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"

Backing up Microsoft Exchange... with Yahoo's Zimbra
(May 4, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (2503 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxWorld: "But a small Austin-based vendor is using Zimbra to complement, not replace, Microsoft's market-leading e-mail server..."

Sun Pushes Open Source Storage
(May 3, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (2416 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "The vendor contends that open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures, just as open source efforts in the past led to cheaper server environments..."

Bacula: Backups That Don't Suck
(Apr 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2714 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties..."

Gifts of Open Source
(Apr 22, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1485 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxWorld: "Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications..."

Benchmarking Linux Filesystems on Software RAID 1
(Apr 22, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2972 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lone Wolves: "A couple of months ago I got a couple of wonderful birthday presents. My lovely geeky girlfriend got me two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives, which were promptly supplemented with a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card..."

Inspecting Disk IO Performance with fio
(Apr 10, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (3453 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."

Linux Gains New Architecture Support
(Mar 28, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (4060 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support..."

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System
(Mar 24, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2298 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Etch)..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 7.10
(Mar 12, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2650 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine..."

Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800
(Mar 12, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (1909 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."

Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server
(Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (3395 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications..."

Back Up Your Files With Fwbackups On Fedora 8
(Mar 3, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (2243 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up, configure and use Fwbackups on a Fedora 8 desktop..."

Sun's Source Code Donation Met With Skepticism
(Feb 28, 2008, 19:00 UTC) (2387 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities..."

Create a Backup Server with Restore
(Feb 21, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (3447 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs..."

Build Your Own RAID Storage Server with Linux
(Feb 21, 2008, 08:30 UTC) (4846 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "If you've been thinking of building yourself a dedicated storage server, this is a good time to do it..."

CleverSafe Out With Commercial Open Source Dispersed Storage Network
(Feb 19, 2008, 19:45 UTC) (1331 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Open source storage startup Cleversafe is moving into the second stage of its evolution, with new hardware appliances built on top of its core open source dispersed storage network technology..."

Managing Hardware RAIDs with Adaptec Storage Manager and Ubuntu
(Feb 14, 2008, 08:30 UTC) (2965 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Ubuntu Server deployment confronts a roadblock in terms of hardware management of redundant arrays of independent disks..."

Debian/Ubuntu Linux Install and Configure Remote Filesystem Snapshot...
(Feb 14, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (2991 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
nixCraft: "I'd like to configure my Debian box to backup two remote servers using rsnapshot software..."

Backing up in Ubuntu is Finally Made Simple: TimeVault
(Feb 12, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (4580 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
Techthrob: "File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer..."

CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool
(Feb 6, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (2435 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10
(Feb 5, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (2760 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive..."

HP Introduces Linux-Based NAS Appliances
(Feb 2, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (5167 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Hewlett-Packard is debuting two Linux-based networked attached storage devices for the consumer/SOHO market..."

Virtually Speaking: FalconStor, Virtual Iron Eye Virtual Storage
(Jan 16, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (1878 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "Virtual Iron strolled further down the path on its virtual storage roadmap this week with the announcement that it was joining forces with FalconStor Software to deliver a number of storage-centric virtualization capabilities...."

Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10
(Dec 30, 2007, 17:00 UTC) (4770 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up, configure and use Timevault on Ubuntu 7.10. The resulting system provides a powerful backup system for desktop usage..."

Using Camcorder Tapes to Back Up Files
(Dec 29, 2007, 09:00 UTC) (4000 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "DV and MiniDV camcorder tapes can be used for more than just storing audio and video recordings. If you have a camcorder and a FireWire connection to your computer, you can also use them to store files..."

Why Big Compute and Big Storage Will Meet Big Pipe at the Last Mile
(Dec 25, 2007, 04:00 UTC) (2457 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "The next big frontier for Big Linux Build-out will be at a back end that's as close as anyone can get the front lines of big video production..."

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Goes Open Source
(Dec 18, 2007, 17:30 UTC) (2682 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Although Ethernet is the dominant interconnect for LANs, when it comes to storage and SANs, it lags other technologies, notably Fibre Channel. That's about to change..."

Virtually Speaking: Storage, The New Frontier
(Dec 13, 2007, 03:15 UTC) (2094 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "As thoughts turn to mistletoe and champagne, the virtualization infrastructure vendors delivered holiday cheer in the form of new product releases on Tuesday..."

(How) Has Open Source Data Warehousing Developed?
(Nov 29, 2007, 13:00 UTC) (3185 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Intelligent Enterprise: "Given the strengths of open source database management systems (DBMSes), open source seems like a natural platform for data warehousing..."

Samba Isn't Enough For Sun
(Nov 26, 2007, 18:15 UTC) (5933 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "What does it take to have seamless Microsoft Windows file sharing and transfer capabilities on a *nix system? According to Sun Microsystems, it takes more than just Samba..."

Linux Backups For Real People, Part 3
(Nov 15, 2007, 20:30 UTC) (3731 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Today we're going to create menu icons for launching our backups whenever we darned well feel like it, set up a simple network backup scheme, and create automatic scheduled backups..."

Linux Backups For Real People, Part 2
(Nov 8, 2007, 20:30 UTC) (3923 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Last week we got our backup hardware in order, so today we're going into detail on backing up our data to a locally-attached backup device..."

Back Up and Print Your Blog with OpenOffice.org Base
(Nov 2, 2007, 07:30 UTC) (4256 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "If you are running a blog (or any Web publishing system, for that matter) that relies on a database back end, you will sooner or later face the problem of backing up the content stored in the database..."

Linux Backups For Real People, Part 1
(Nov 1, 2007, 19:30 UTC) (5842 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Everyone knows they should make regular backups of their data. But hardly anyone is as diligent with backups as they should be..."

Sun Plans to Countersue NetApp
(Oct 25, 2007, 12:45 UTC) (4575 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Underexposed: "Sun Microsystems plans to countersue Network Appliance later this week, Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said Wednesday, a suit that will include a request to remove the company's products from the market..."

The Road to Ubuntu: Backup Hell
(Oct 24, 2007, 08:15 UTC) (6178 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
iTWire: "My journey from XP to Ubuntu has stalled as I fight with Gutsy Gibbon to recreate my file backup regime under Linux..."

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