One of my favorite utilities on the Linux command-line, and block storage is one of my favorite features on Linode's platform, so in this article I get to combine both of these together - because what ...

Backing up a local directory to one on a remote machine on Linux is fast and flexible with this Linux command line tool. Linux is the most flexible operating system on the market. With this ...

If you need a flexible means of backing up data on a Linux server, rsync might be your tool. There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the more tried and true methods is ...

I hate to admit it, but I’ve screwed up many times throughout the years when it’s come to using computers. My first big “Oh shi!” moment came when I was about 8-years-old, goofing around on my ...

Maybe you want the directories that you synchronize to be exact copies of each other or maybe you just don’t. Let’s dig a little more deeply into the rsync command and see if we can’t find just the ...

If you need a flexible means of backing up data on a Linux server, rsync might be your tool. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection ...

Last month we covered setting up an rsync server for anonymous access. Listing 1 shows the sample rsyncd.conf file from last month, illustrating some options particularly useful for tightening ...

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