Linux Community Magazine

Though Linux is among the safest and the most reliable computer operating systems that are available today and it is designed to provide high stability, but data might also get lost from Linux systems. Data loss is an unforeseen situation that may cause damage to valuable files and settings on any platform.The Linux data loss generally occurs as a result of user mistakes, but it could also occur due to system issues like file system corruption, operating system failure, disk failures and more. To avoid these situations, it is a good idea to make extra copy of your important and sensitive data. In Linux, you can use the following methods to backup your data and prevent data loss:Archiving with tar: In this process you need to collect the data that you want to backup and then compress it. This process includes concatenating all the list files and removing unnecessary blank spaces. It is done using tar command that can be used to backup data on any storage device. Incremental backup with tar: Tar command allows you to create incremental backup with N parameter. Using this parameter, you can give a date and tar command would check the modification time of all the files against this date. If the files are modified more recently than the given date, they would be included in backup. Compressing with Gzip: You can compress and backup your important Linux data using the Gzip tool. It would add suffix.gz to file name and delete the original file. You can uncompress these files using d option. Though all these methods are good to backup your data and avoid data loss situations, but the archives made with proprietary tar version may be incompatible with another version on another system. It may prevent you from recovering your data from tar files and require Data Recovery Linux to handle the situation. Linux Data Recovery is best possible using powerful Linux Recovery software such as Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery. It is designed to perform Linux Recovery from Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file system volumes. Phoenix Data Recovery Linux tool can perform easy, effective and safe Linux Recovery from Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, Kubuntu and several other Linux distributions.