Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In state and local government, system backups are essential to ...

Data loss is one of the worst things that can happen to your computing system, regardless of whether you’re a casual user or a hardcore home lab enthusiast with multiple devices in your arsenal.

I use Linux for both desktop and server. My preference for a server OS is one without a GUI, which means I have to turn to a lot of command-line tools. In some cases, I prefer to use the same ...