David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software since 1996 and with computers since 1969. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy for System Administrators."
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and OS/2 Magazine back when there was such a thing. He currently writes prolifically for OpenSource.com. He particularly enjoys learning new things while researching his books and articles, building his own computers, and helping his grandchildren build their computers. He has found some interesting
and unusual ways of problem solving, including sitting on one computer on which he was working.
David has published five books with Apress. Four solo works, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins,” August 2018, and a three volume self-study training course, “Using and Administering Linux — From Zero to SysAdmin,” released in December, 2019. He has also written one book with co-author Cyndi Bulka, "Linux for Small Business Owners" that was released in 2022.
David currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his amazing and supportive wife, Alice.
He can be reached via email at LinuxGeek46@both.org or on Mastodon at @LinuxGeek46@linuxrocks.online.
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I use rsync in a rather interesting script I wrote. The script creates a new entry for each day and uses the option
--link-dest=$LastBackupPath
to create links to the most recent previous backups. This saves lots of media space and backup time.
Nice article, Don.
My System76 Oryx Pro 17" with 32G of RAM and Intel i7 with 6 cores and 2TB of SSD storage, came Tuesday. I am still exploring the possibilities and experimenting with it but my first impression is that it is powerful, solidly built, and well designed. It was also somewhat less expensive than the last Linux laptop I purchased, a Lenovo W500 with a core 2 Duo and overall heavier and much less powerful than the Oryx. It did last for 12 years, though.