Data recovery is the process of retrieving data from corrupted or damaged storage media when it cannot be accessed. Here’s our recommended free software.
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Tag: system administration
Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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27 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
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Essential System Tools: Neofetch – System Information Tool written in Bash
Neofetch is a command-line interface system information script written in bash 3.2+. The script displays information about your system next to an image, your operating system logo, or any ASCII/image file of your choice. It’s designed to capture information about your system and display it in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
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Essential System Tools: ddrescue – Data recovery software
This is the tenth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at ddrescue.
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Essential System Tools: journalctl – query and display messages from the journal
This is the eighth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll examine journalctl, a systemd utility.
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Essential System Tools: BleachBit – open source system cleaning software
This is the sixth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. We’re recommending a graphical utility that is excellent at giving your system a deep clean. It’s called BleachBit.
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12 More Enlightening Free Linux Books – Part 3
The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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6 Best Free System Recovery Software
Linux and other operating systems are blessed with powerful tools to retrieve and recover valuable data. However, it is not always possible to recover data on a running system. Sometimes the machine will not even boot. This might arise if the boot loader has become corrupted, there is damage to a partition, or vital operating system files have been lost.
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