Ryumaou

Making the impossible merely improbable since 1968

Diary of a Network Geek

Time Machine for Linux

Okay, it's not quite Apple's Time Machine, but close.

Mac users know all about Time Machine. It's a really great feature of OS X that makes small, incremental backups of your system. It lets you roll back changes to both system and data files to a particular time and day. The backups work pretty quietly and seamlessly, too. I have to admit, it's one of the coolest features of OS X.

Roll Your Own Linux Distro

My regular readers all know how much I love Linux.

Okay, I'll admit that I don't run it as my main OS, but I love it for servers. Truly, truly, I do. I use it for all kinds of things, including my own, home-grown imaging system. Sure, it's not Novell's ZENWorks, but it does work pretty well. Back in the days when everyone seemed to be coming out with their own specialized distribution, I always thought it would be fun to roll one of my own. Yeah, I know, I am such a geek!