FanBox Desktop: web operating system as online backup storage

Online backup storage are very popular backup solutions. They have many good features. Your files are available from anywhere (if there is a web access) and the files are secured from floods, fire disasters or robbery in your house. Web operating systems are interested projects which brings the complete desktop to your web browser. Now you can use them as a specific online backup storage.
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How to Backup Your Files Automatically (for Linux users)

In the two previous articles I introduced two common used utilities in Linux operating system, tar and cron. "tar" is used for creating archive files and "cron" is a time-based scheduling utility. In this article, I will combine "tar" with "cron" to solve the problem: how to backup your files automatically?
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How to backup MySQL with "mysqldump"

MySQL is a free, open source database management system. It is used widely in the Internet. Some famous companies, such as Yahoo!, choose MySQL as their databases. Most of web hosting companies provide MySQL and there are many free scripts like WordPress, Joomla that use MySQL. As it is widely used in the Internet and the data is important, it is a very useful skill to master how to backup your MySQL database.

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Backup Your Files with 'tar' in Linux

The easiest way to back up your files is just copying. But if you have too many files to backup, copying and restoring may take too long time and it is not convenient. If there is a tool that can put many files into one file, the world will be better. Fortunately, 'tar' is used to create archive files. It can pack files or directories into a 'tar' file. It is like WinZip in Windows, but without compression.
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Backup MBR in Linux

MBR is short for Master Boot Record. It is a very small program which is located in your hard disk and executes when a computer boots up, before the operating system. Typically, it is at the first sector on your hard disk and the size is 512 bytes. The MBR maintains the DPT (Disk Partition Table), which can contains 4 primary partitions, and start the operating system. If the MBR is damaged, your operating system wouldn't be able to boot up.

How to backup KMail?

KMail is popular e-mail client for Linux users. You can find it in the KDE - powerful desktop environment. KMail is also a part of a bigger application called Kontakt. This part of KDE offers the complete solution for your contacts, e-mails, calendars, appointments, task lists and meeting scheduling. People always asks about backup features for their KMail installation. So there are few steps how to do KMail backup.