If you have any data – backups are not optional.Devices crash. Pendrives disappear. Houses burn down. Your backups are useful only if you can restore them.
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Backups feel safe, but they are only useful if you can restore them when the unexpected occurs.Many operators treat backups as a safety net; few test that net for real resilience.
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The Workstation Player of VMWare is a lightweight and free desktop virtualization hypervisor for non-commercial users. We can learn about virtualization and use it for practicing for free. We can run Windows, Linux and BSD systems on our host machine. The Workstation Player supports Windows and Linux as host for virtualization. The free solution comes…
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Microsoft WSL is a very good technology when we want to run Linux applications on our Windows computer. When we install a distro from the Microsoft Store we can only install one instance of it. But with some work we can have multiple instances of the same distro.
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Backing up and restoring WSL distros is easier than we think! It is simply an export of the (stopped) distro that can be moved on an external disk as an archive. Restoring a backup is importing the generated tar file. Moreover we can add multiple instances of the same distro with exporting and then importing…
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