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Backup files on Linux with FreeFileSync

Jan 112015

As a Linux user, you always want to keep your files and folders up to date, and this is especially true in those situations where you can create a backup. This is why you have to use a tool that automatically syncs the content of two folders in order to keep them up to date. FreeFileSync is a utility that fits the bill quite nicely, since it automates the aforementioned process and makes it easy for you to compare as well as synchronize the content of any two different or similar files that are located on your computer or network.
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opensource Asset Management software : GLPI

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Dec 112011

In the 2 former articles of this series we have saw OCSInventory and Fusion Inventory 2 software that can create an asset inventory with your computers hardware and software, they both work with agents on the remote machines that send the information on a central server, where you can see, manage and query these information.

Today i present you GLPI, another French product, that can use both of these Inventory solutions and add on top of them a lot of useful things, like an embedded Ticketing System, a Financial Management for the assets and It has enhanced functions like a job-tracking system with mail notification and methods to build a database with basic information about the network topology.

opensource Asset Management software : Fusion Inventory

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Dec 022011

This is my second article on this topic, Asset management with opensource tools.
In the first article i’ve published information about OcsInventory NG, a mature French project that recently has released his 2.0 release.

Today we’ll take a look at Fusion Inventory, another French project that has exactly the same goals, but that’s much more recent.

opensource Asset Management software : OCSInventory Ng

11/26/2011
opensource Asset Management software : OCSInventory Ng
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Tagged with: Accounting, Asset Management, Investment management, IT asset management, linux, OCS Inventory, OCS Inventory NG, OpenSource

Today I want to present an open source software created for the asset management OCSInventory, and in the next days i want to post information about Fusioninventory and GLPI. I will focus on programs that allow you to have an inventory of your hardware and software that allow you to manage everything with discovery tools, reports and alerts, but first let’s see what’s the mean of Asset Management: From Wikipedia: Asset management, broadly […]