Misc

Difference between Differential Incremental and Full backups

Here is a simple explanation of different types of backup methods. Below diagrams are showing three days backup in different methods. The blue color indicated the previous day’s full backup. Green is the growing data of each day. Orange is the quantity of backup data. I would like to explain one more scenario. One company with a backup policy as …

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Font Download – Indian Rupee Symbol – V 3.0

Now we Rupee_Foradian font is ready for using Indian rupee symbol. It has created  by Mangalore based Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd . just download Rupee_Foradian.ttf from the following download link and install to your font directory. now you can use this in all application.  This will be helpful for printing and designing. you are using this font in any soft …

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View, Edit, Repair Tool for Outlook auto completion (.nk2) file

The auto completion of Microsoft outlook is working with the help of a file with .NK2 extension. It is an auto generated file according to user activity. Sometimes you may need to edit the file to remove unwanted contacts from the auto completion list. There are no explorers like address book for this file. There is a small utility called …

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Use AWK to print column’s from file

In many times, we all may required an output of specific column in a file, for example we want to know the users in the system, for this we need to open passwd file in /etc folder and view, but the file is having so much of information, it is time consuming  to takeout user name, in that case we …

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Debian lenny Colorful Bash prompt and file names

Fancy bash and ls color is helpful feature in linux. Once we install Debian lenny, the bash prompt and ls result will show in normal ( black and white ). so i planed to make some changes in the profile file. This will helpful for Linux server administrators. To change in to a colorful prompt do following, Open /etc/profile It …

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“alias” use it for a good reason

In Linux we all work with lots of log files, like mail, squid, application etc…., all these files located in its own folder, for example, if we want to look for squid access log to monitor the site access, generally we do tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log, this involves lots of typing, we can make this simple with alias command in linux …

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Printing command from history without executing

We all know that, BASH stores the commands we entered in the terminal to .bash_history, we can see those commands using history command. Commands in the history can be executed by ! followed by the number,  !5 (5th command in the history will get executed). But what if we only need to print the command, instead of executing, we can …

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