We need data recovery tools on daily basis. Once we lose very sensitive data, we get desperate to retrieve them at any cost. Data recovery is very delicate job. The key is that once you lose your data in a particular hard drive, please, do not copy or install anything on it. Leave the drive intact. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to recover data. Just make an image at a different location of your hard drive where you lost your data and use the data recovery tool on the image to recover data. There are quite a few good open source data recovery tool available in the market and Scrounge NTF is one of them. We are going to take a quick look of the tool.

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The Avira company offers a number of different solutions. Scan through their product overview to find out which solution is best for you.  But for this article we are looking at the Avira Antivir workstation solution for linux. In this article I will show you how to install and use this outstanding product.
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How To Disable IPv6 in Red Hat Linux

Since it may be a while before I’m ready to use the IPv6 on my systems, I’ve been disabling IPv6 on most servers so far. And since there’s a particularly elegant way of doing this in Red Hat Linux, I think it’s worth sharing.
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Most PHP scripts and content management system scripts (CMS scripts) require writable permission 777 (rwxrwzrwz) to be set for certain folders for uploading photos and videos. Many security experts warn that setting 777 permission means that anybody can upload any content to your server, install malicious code, run unwanted programs and could potentially misuse your server. This is big security risk.

Ironically if you implement a fileupload in your script, the upload wouldnt work for any other permissions other 777 or else your upload will fail. So you will be forced to set 777 permission for your writable folders.

Alternatively, to secure your server you can implement the following checks to in your PHP script as well as in your server. Remember if you are in shared hosting plan you might be limited in running as root.
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i have been struggling to find some way or another to transfer my file from one linux server to another using commandline. Before this i was just using cpanel to do backups.

Here is an easy way to accomplish transferring backup files from one server to another in linux. Just simple command using SCP (secure file copy)
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