description: You probably want to take advantage of the data integrity checking offered by Btrfs. Btrfs calculates checksums for all data written to disk. These checksums are used to verify the data hasn’t been unduly altered. While data is verified every time it is read, what about the data that isn’t read often? How long may bit rot go unnoticed in that case? That’s the crux of this blog post which will explain how to best preserve your data on Btrfs and detect corruption early.

description: Manually taking snapshots with Btrfs is easy. Managing said snapshots is not. This is why several tools exist for the task. The most prominent are Btrbk, Snapper, and Timeshift. Each of these automate taking, naming, and cleaning up snapshots. Btrbk is highly configurable and flexible while also offering incremental backups. It doesn’t handle rollbacks, however. Timeshift is only designed for rolling back a system’s root subvolume and not arbitrary subvolumes. It is rather inflexible, but provides a fantastic graphical interface right out of the box and makes rollbacks quick and easy. Snapper is very configurable, makes rollbacks a breeze, has been around a while, and is quite popular.

description: Dealing with spam the fun way.

description: This is the third in a series of Tales From Tech Support. Some stories from the past featuring broken computers and even more broken tech support operatives - mostly me.In the early 1990s, I worked as a contractor for a large, well-established accounting firm. In It’s MY monitor, I told the story of dealing with an angry Partner. Today’s story is worse, as I’m dealing with the Personal Assistant of a Partner.

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