Sysadmin: file and folder synchronisation

Over the years I’ve struggled to keep my folder data synchronised between my various desktop and laptops. Here I present the tools I’ve tried and what I’ve finally settled on as possibly the ultimate answer to the problem of synchronising files and folders across multiple computers: * [rsync](#rsync) * [unison](#unison) * [WinSCP](#winscp) * [General Backup... » read more

Sysadmin: Recovering deleted Windows partitions

I made a mistake the other day: I wanted to delete the partition on an external drive and in my haste ended up deleting the partition of a local hard drive instead… The good thing is when you delete a partition using the Windows Disk Management console it doesn’t actually delete your files, only the... » read more