I’ve learned that self-hosting comes with an unexpected problem: the more useful your server becomes, the more you have to protect it . What started as a few containers eventually turned into a setup ...

Although Windows PowerShell is not a backup tool per se, it can be used to create data backups. In fact, there are several PowerShell backup scripts available for download. For those who may be ...

A while back, I developed a PowerShell script that I use for creating air gapped backups of my file data. Even though I put a lot of effort into building this script and testing it over and over again ...

Recovery Manager, or RMAN, is a tool from Oracle that can be used to back up and restore Oracle databases. The software runs on a management server and communicates with a target database or server ...

I would like to use rsync to backup one Mac OS X 10.4 to another each night with cron. What arguments are needed to make the the best possible rsync script for a Mac? If you can, avoid the use of the ...

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...