When the company I work for, a civil engineering and surveying firm, decided to move all its AutoCad drawings onto a central fileserver, we were presented with a backup situation orders of magnitude ...

Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

Yeah, RAID is the first thing I'd consider. Maybe RAID 5 or 10? If you don't want to spring for a RAID card, you can try using software RAID (it's apparently stable as of 2.4.7, IIRC)<P>I'm not aware ...

Imprint is a modern, safe, and mapper‑aware disk imaging tool built on partclone. It backs up only the used data, supports LUKS and LVM, and works both inside Linux and from a rescue ISO — without the ...

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) helps you manage your storage better by introducing a layer of abstraction over your storage hardware. When you’re freed from hardware limitations you can use more than ...

To coincide with the company's 20th anniversary, Vienna-based Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has released Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0 and the matching Proxmox Backup Server 4.0. The new ...