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This is the advanced feature every new Linux user needs to know

You want a Linux device that's never broken? Make sure this tool is set up and running regularly.
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The easiest way to protect your Linux PC from disaster - no backup needed

Snapshots are a crucial part of keeping your system running. You'll want to install the free Timeshift app on your distribution. Make sure to save your snapshots to ...
PC World

OpenSUSE 13.2 supercharged with smoother setup, system snapshots, Btrfs, and more

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...
Geeky Gadgets

New UGREEN Snapshots Feature Released : Never Lose a File Again

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file, only to realize moments later that it’s gone for good? Or perhaps you’ve been struck by a ransomware attack, watching helplessly as your data ...
Ars Technica

KVM, ZVols and consistent VM Snapshots.

I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...
Network World

Recovery options: Copy-on-write vs redirect-on-write snapshots

Snapshots are virtual copies that can rapidly recover data but depending on the approach can have very different performance characteristics. Snapshots are a very popular way to create virtual copies ...