Top 10 Linux Backup and Recovery software

linux-logoSuppose you are running an organization with mission-critical Linux servers in one location and with IT experts. Imagine a situation, if your server goes down. What would be the impact on your business. For worse if you lack a backup, you are thrown for loop without a notice. To handle such gloom and doom you need an effective and powerful recovery tool with great recovery potential and allowing application of influential scanning algorithms.

Its imperative to have a comprehensive backup and recovery solution that would enable the recovery of Linux servers, helping you to get back to business and minimize the downtime. The backup software solutions provides you a complete back up of the files, data, database, system or server. To be more specific, it enables the you to make a duplicate of everything contained on the original source. After an extensive research, we explored the top 10 Linux backup and recovery software.

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Generous Microsoft unveils new security software, but remains a miser still

microsoft-antivirusSAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to dispel fears about the vulnerability of Windows to viruses and other malware, Microsoft Tuesday released a trial version of a new free security package called Microsoft Security Essentials. The software is designed to replace the Windows Defender tool that Microsoft released in 2007, but which was widely derided as being inadequate to protect computers from the constant and ever-evolving threats posed by hackers. Full article (161 words) »

10 technological announcements that shook us in 2009

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

The year 2009 started on a high-note with some ground breaking revelations in CES 2009. In a keynote address, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of its long awaited, next-gen OS - Windows 7 beta. Following the suit, next big thing in the line of Linux OS was Fedora 11 Leonidas. While Apple chief Steve Jobs took his first break after a decade, blogs were flooded with iPhone 3G S leaks, out as the new avtar in mobile market long before it floored on the Apple store - enough noise to overwhelm Steven Spielberg's next project with Tintin as protagonist. Palm one the other end was looking to recover its lost glory in mobile phone market with the launch of its smartphone Pre. In the turn of events, Google created ripples in the enterprise market with its new tool for communication and collaboration on the web - Google waves. Google co-ounder Sergey Brin was highly apprehensive of Microsoft ad-hyped search engine Bing's launch this season, of course for no good reason. Microsoft plans to take gaming experience on Xbox 360 to the next level with controller-free gaming under the Project Natal.

Not just these but there was much more happening in the tech world that took let jaws drop. We went on an exhaustive search to break out the top tech adventures that shook the tech world in 2009

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Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux: First Impression

google-chrome-browser A raw version of Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux has been pre-released. Those working on Mac and Linux might have another browser to rejoice but the story is far from complete. Well, the test version of the browser is a novice that knows no printing, Flash and lack even a bookmark manager. It's not even in beta. Probably this is why the project leaders Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg have emphasized "DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM!" Well, it also bears in addition that you try them only if you like incomplete, crash-prone software. With much of it on the lee-side there's a relief that it'll have updates more frequently that no browser would opt for.
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Intel acquires Wind River with $884M in order to diversify into smartphones and handheld devices

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SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Corp. is biting off its biggest acquisition in nearly a decade with an $884 million takeover of Wind River Systems Inc., a software maker with a colorful past. Wind River's software started as a way to help Francis Ford Coppola edit movies, and has since been used in NASA's Mars rovers, fighter-jet control panels, TV set-top boxes and mobile devices.

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 to debut on Oct 22

windows-7SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said Tuesday that it will debut its new operating system Oct 22 as it seeks to block a growing challenge from Google, Apple, and the open-source Linux operating system. The world's largest software company is releasing Windows 7 just 33 months after launching Windows Vista which has been widely panned for its demanding hardware requirements and slow response time.

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Google Android OS is coming home to Netbooks through Acer

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Small new "netbook" computers from Acer Inc. will come with Google Inc.'s Android operating system if buyers desire, instead of Windows from Microsoft Corp. The move by Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, could raise Android's chances of becoming a widely used alternative to Windows on mobile computers. Because Android, originally designed for mobile phones, is freely distributed by Google, netbooks running the software would cost less, Acer executive Jim Wong said Tuesday at Computex, a huge computer show in Taiwan. He would not give a specific figure. Wong also praised Android's fast boot-up time.

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Windows 7 vs Linux: Can there be a game now?

microsoft_linux_windows_penguinPeople are saying that perhaps Microsoft has done things right for the first time in many years. Reason? Windows 7. Despite having seen different operating systems being launched every year, we don't recall any Windows, Linux or Mac OS has had such popularity even before being launched, so many communities dedicated to the breaking news of a yet to be an official product and uncountable positives coming out in form of Microsoft's relatively liberal approach and reviews of tech pundits. So what exactly does this signify? To be fair, Windows 7 deserves much of its credits because it really has proved to be far superior than the previous version of half baked Windows Vista. But the question is, will it affect the Linux community?

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Top 5 Free Backup Tools for Linux

backup1If you are over-optimist about your computer's safety, let me tell you there are any number of hard drives failures occurring in and around you. Well, you might have no clue of a data-disaster when it hits your system. The only way to save your invaluable data is a back up tool. Now if you are the one who works on Linux system, you are lucky to have a number of free backup tools for your system. Most of these tools provide you complete backup either on a regular or scheduled basis. Some of these free application are server based where as there are others that can be installed in your Computer. I got across five cool free backup systems for Linux that I would like to share with you. Here's a list of top 5 free Backup Tools for Linux.

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Xfce toolbar problem: Solution

xfceAfter writing a detailed guide of tips and howtos about Xfce (a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD) we started our expedition on Xfce and soon encountered a problem that we had no feasible and complete solution to. One of our developers was having some problems with the Xfce panels. It was not being shown and somehow there was no help at hand anywhere. But anyway, we solved it quickly and it was pretty easy like any other problem is, after being solved. So here is the way to restore top and bottom toolbars for Xfce environment in your Linux distro.

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