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Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.

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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.

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5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

September 21, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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GSmartControl – hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GSmartControl is an open source graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART data.

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Smartmontools – control and monitor storage systems

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The smartmontools package contains two open source utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems

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hdparm – get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

hdparm is an open source, command-line, performance and benchmarking utility to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.

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NVMe-CLI – NVM-Express user space tooling

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

NVMe-CLI is an NVMe management command line interface. This offers a powerful feature set that follows the NVMe specification

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sg3_utils – utilities that send SCSI commands to devices

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The sg3_utils package contains utilities that send SCSI commands to devices. This is free and open source software written in C.

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sdparm – accesses SCSI device parameters

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The sdparm utility accesses SCSI device parameters. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

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