When you’re doing a backup without access to fancy tools such as rsync or BRU you can always rely on standard CLI utilities to be installed on Linux. For a simple backup, use a LiveCD and boot to their desktop.
Once the desktop is up, open up a console terminal. Switch to the parent […]

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Looking for a solution that’ll restore a clean SLED image on logout? Don’t want to develop your own? Then Faronics might have a solution for you.
Deep Freeze is a popular program for Windows and Apple computers and is now being released for Novell’s SuSE Linux distribution. What it does is clean the […]

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So far I’ve talked about using various programs on drive images, but haven’t pointed out a tool for creating them.
Drive images are a copy of an entire drive, generally taken when it’s offline. Generally these are used for backups, forensic analysis, or in an attempt to save a drive with bare metal recovery methods.
A […]

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Foremost, designed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations to aid in investigative work, offers a way of directly recovering data. Instead of looking through a file system based on its structure and then following file system references to a specific file, Foremost does a raw read of a block device […]

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Recovery measures are good and well, but the best measure for data recovery is a good backup. Your systems will eventually fail, that we can be sure of.
So before you get to the point where you’re trying to do a bare metal recovery, why not back the data up? That’s where programs like […]

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