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General tips for Debian-newbie?

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    The KDE® Community is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and …

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  2. Match command-line arguments to their help.
    You can find lots of information online - some is great, and some isn't. Learn to be critical about the stuff you read online, ie. When someone suggests a bunch of commands to run, files to change, etc. Try to understand what they do before running them. Man pages are great, but can be hard to navigate. https://explainshell.com/ does a really good job of displaying relevant documentation for a bunch of commands.

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  3. rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
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    People need to stop recommending rsync for backups. Some reasonable, time-tested software suggestions are Back In Time, Borg+Vorta, and my minimal CLI choice, rdiff-backup.

    #Cloud Storage #Backup & Sync #File Sharing 15 social mentions

  4. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from ...
    People need to stop recommending rsync for backups. Some reasonable, time-tested software suggestions are Back In Time, Borg+Vorta, and my minimal CLI choice, rdiff-backup.

    #File Sharing And Backup #File Sharing #File Transfer 24 social mentions

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