I'm still feeling my way in the proper configuration of a Linux machine so excuse me again if this is a silly question. Is there anything like the Windows persistent volume snapshot functionality ...

Sometimes we use a technology even though we're unaware of its full features and capabilities and how they may be able to benefit us. One such feature is the data snapshot. The snapshot is a single ...

For this issue we cover the Linux.Ars visit to the OhioLinux fest, LVM snapshotting with XFS for hot backups, Tomboy, and more. On October 2nd, Jorge Castro and I found ourselves on our way to the ...

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The On-line Backup System creates "snapshots" (read-only copies of your files) at regular intervals. Under Unix, every directory mounted from Netapp has a ".snapshot" subdirectory with a number of ...