Linux Journal Issue #247/November 2014

Features

Ideal Backups with zbackup  by David Barton
Snapshot backups are a snap with zbackup.
High-Availability Storage with HA-LVM  by Petros Koutoupis
Enable fault tolerance without the high prices.
Sharing Root Access without Sharing Passwords  by J.D. Baldwin
Leverage the key-caching agent to distribute login authority to shared admin accounts on remote hosts without having to grant individuals an account or a copy of the key itself.

Indepth

Rethinking the System Monitor  by James Hall
The command line isn't going away—our tools need some visual love so we can better diagnose problems.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   PostgreSQL, the NoSQL Database  
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Mad Libs for Dreams, Part II  
Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Localhost DNS Cache  
Shawn Powers' The Open-Source Classroom   DevOps: Better Than the Sum of Its Parts  
Doc Searls' EOF   Big Bad Data  

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