Linux is a powerful platform, but anyone who has used it long enough knows how fragile things can feel after a bad update, a misconfigured package, or an experiment gone wrong. Traditional backups can ...

Offensive Security has announced its implementation of a file system snapshot in Kali Linux, a feature designed to add VM-like snapshotting to bare-metal installs. The new feature, dubbed Kali ...

Sometimes we use a technology even though we're unaware of its full features and capabilities and how they may be able to benefit us. One such feature is the data snapshot. The snapshot is a single ...

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...

I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...