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ZFS Backups to Files
· ☕ 9 min read
ZFS is a great filesystem which I use on most of my systems and it makes full-drive backups a breeze. However, sometimes I want to backup to a non-ZFS system. These are the steps I use for fast and verified backups to a file on another computer.

Change Username Without Separate Session
· ☕ 5 min read
Changing a user's username on Linux requires no processes be running under that user. This makes sense, but what if we only have that user accessible through a SSh connection?