SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

I've been Linux'ing in hard mode ...

I was thinking in using rsync to keep some file synched between my RH box at work and this one on my house, using ssh as the transport agent. Thing is, I have to use a non-standard port -8092- so I ...

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 ...

I have a Jetstor NAS with 2 RAID arrays, both are formatted for OS X, this is used by a couple of Mac Pros for online video editing. What I want to do is use an existing linux box and nightly rsync ...

Backups don't need to be complicated. There's a whole industry built around implementing backup systems with NAS devices, RAID arrays, and software with snazzy GUI frontends. But my favorite solution ...

I wrote something similar with a bunch of Perl scripts. I also have a cron job that thins out the backups. I keep: The last backup of every year, indefinitely. The last 12 end-of-the-month backups.

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 ...

rsync works fine for my use-case, and I do a nightly pg_dumpall of my databases, which are quite small and therefore feasible to back up that way. I guess what I should have written is that I don't ...

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 ...

March 25, 2021 — The US Department of Energy (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has released a new Technical Report and associated open source testing tools. The report describes and ...

Six vulnerabilities have been fixed in the newest versions of Rsync (v3.4.0), two of which could be exploited by a malicious client to achieve arbitrary code execution on a machine with a running ...