nixCraft » Backup http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Increase Your VMware Virtual Hard Disk Size ( vmdk file )http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-resize-vmware-virtual-harddisk-size.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-resize-vmware-virtual-harddisk-size.html#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:22:42 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4998 I've Windows Vista installed as a guest under Ubuntu Linux using VMWARE Workstation 6.0. This is done for testing purpose and browsing a few site that only works with Internet Explorer. Since I only use it for testing I made 16GB for Vista and 5GB for CentOS and 5GB in size for FreeBSD guest operating systems. However, after some time I realized I'm running out of disk space under both CentOS and Vista. Adding a second hard drive under CentOS solved my problem as LVM was already in use. Unfortunately, I needed to double 32GB space without creating a new D: drive under Windows Vista. Here is a simple procedure to increase your Virtual machine's disk capacity by resizing vmware vmdk file.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-resize-vmware-virtual-harddisk-size.html/feed 31 How To Use Gmail Account To Relay Email From a Shell Prompthttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-gmail-as-a-smarthost.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-gmail-as-a-smarthost.html#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:29:28 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4596 Usually, you do not need to setup an email server under Linux desktop operating system. Most GUI email clients (such as Thunderbird) supports Gmail POP3 and IMAP configurations. But, how do you send mail via the standard or /usr/bin/mail user agents or a shell script? Programs such as sendmail / postfix / exim can be configured as a gmail smarthost but they are largely overkill for this use. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-gmail-as-a-smarthost.html/feed 46 Linux: Local / Remote Backup For Large Fileshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-backing-up-large-files.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-backing-up-large-files.html#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:04:59 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2425 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-backing-up-large-files.html/feed 2 Yet Another Reason to Have Offsite Data Backuphttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/gpcode-file-encryptor-ransomware-virus.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/gpcode-file-encryptor-ransomware-virus.html#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:42:52 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2353 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/gpcode-file-encryptor-ransomware-virus.html/feed 0 Flickrfs: Access / Backup Flickr Photos From Linuxhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-virtual-filesystem-for-flickr.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-virtual-filesystem-for-flickr.html#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:50:25 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2219 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-virtual-filesystem-for-flickr.html/feed 1 Linux Create Incremental Backups Using FlyBack GUI Time Machine Backup Softwarehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/flyback-time-machine-backup-software-for-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/flyback-time-machine-backup-software-for-linux.html#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:20 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/flyback-time-machine-backup-software-for-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/flyback-time-machine-backup-software-for-linux.html/feed 3 Rotate FTP Backup Using a Shell Scripthttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rotate-ftp-backup-using-a-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rotate-ftp-backup-using-a-shell-script.html#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:40:49 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rotate-ftp-backup-using-a-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rotate-ftp-backup-using-a-shell-script.html/feed 5 Mirror directory with mirrordir commandhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-duplicate-directory-using-mirrordir-command.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-duplicate-directory-using-mirrordir-command.html#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:10:39 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-duplicate-directory-using-mirrordir-command.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-duplicate-directory-using-mirrordir-command.html/feed 5 Linux mobile phone manager – Wammuhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-wammu-linux-unix-phone-manager.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-wammu-linux-unix-phone-manager.html#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:25:39 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-wammu-linux-unix-phone-manager.html Edit / delete contacts, todo, calendar etc => Send files => Text (sms) composer for multi part smses => Search phone => Backup etc [...]]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-wammu-linux-unix-phone-manager.html/feed 4 CentOS / Red Hat Linux: Install and manage iSCSI Volumehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:36:35 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html/feed 50 SSH: Rotate backup shell script to remove directories (old backup files)http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:09:00 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html/feed 6 Quickly Backup / dump MySql / Postgres database to another remote server securelyhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/backup-postgres-mysql-securely-using-ssh.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/backup-postgres-mysql-securely-using-ssh.html#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:11:53 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/backup-postgres-mysql-securely-using-ssh.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/backup-postgres-mysql-securely-using-ssh.html/feed 5 Copy hard disk or partition image to another system using a network and netcat (nc)http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-compressed-drive-image-over-network.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-compressed-drive-image-over-network.html#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:35:02 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-compressed-drive-image-over-network.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-compressed-drive-image-over-network.html/feed 27 Redhat Enterprise Linux securely mount remote Linux / UNIX directory or file system using SSHFShttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-mounting-remote-filesystem-using-sshfs.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-mounting-remote-filesystem-using-sshfs.html#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 18:45:55 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-mounting-remote-filesystem-using-sshfs.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-mounting-remote-filesystem-using-sshfs.html/feed 17 Howto upgrade Debian 3.1 Sarge to Debian 4.0 Etch stablehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/upgrading-debian-sarga-3-to-etch-4.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/upgrading-debian-sarga-3-to-etch-4.html#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:40:18 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/upgrading-debian-sarga-3-to-etch-4.html Debian 4.0 has been released. It is recommended that you upgrade the system to latest version. Upgrading remote Debian server is a piece of cake :D]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/upgrading-debian-sarga-3-to-etch-4.html/feed 18 HowTo Use rsync For Transferring Files Under Linux or UNIXhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-rsync-transfer-mirror-files-directories.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-rsync-transfer-mirror-files-directories.html#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:13:10 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-use-rsync-for-transferring-files-under-linux-or-unix.html How do you install and use rsync to synchronize files and directories from one location (or one server) to another location? - A common question asked by new sys admin.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-rsync-transfer-mirror-files-directories.html/feed 53 Linux recover deleted files with lsof command – howtohttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-recover-deleted-files-with-lsof-command.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-recover-deleted-files-with-lsof-command.html#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:58:20 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-recover-deleted-files-with-lsof-command.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-recover-deleted-files-with-lsof-command.html/feed 31 True Tales of Data Disaster and Remarkable Feats of Data Recoveryhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-10-list-of-data-loss-disasters-of-2006.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-10-list-of-data-loss-disasters-of-2006.html#comments Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:43:47 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-10-list-of-data-loss-disasters-of-2006.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-10-list-of-data-loss-disasters-of-2006.html/feed 0 Use amanda to backup your Linux server – Howtohttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/amanda-tutorial-howto.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/amanda-tutorial-howto.html#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:32:39 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/amanda-tutorial-howto.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/amanda-tutorial-howto.html/feed 0 How Linux Live CD could save your lifehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-linux-live-cd-could-save-your-life.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-linux-live-cd-could-save-your-life.html#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:58:31 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-linux-live-cd-could-save-your-life.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-linux-live-cd-could-save-your-life.html/feed 0