Learn how to use --dry-run in Linux commands like rsync, apt, and git. Preview changes before execution to avoid data loss.

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 ...

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 ...

Our back up was successful. How to back up a local Linux directory to a remote Linux host with rsync Your email has been sent There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the ...

rsync -avuP -e ssh username@server:/Volumes/Data/Movies/Projects/JC\ Consultant\ Group/* /media/Data/Movies/Projects/JC\ Consultant\ Group receiving file list ...

Given the comments and questions I’ve received since last week’s column on using rsync to move a file system from one disk to another, I thought we might run through some simple exercises to gain more ...

Nobody wants to lose their progress due to a system failure, so regardless of platform, there is a way to keep a backup of your system. In this post, we will use Rsync to back up Raspberry Pi without ...

-H, --hard-links This tells rsync to look for hard-linked files in the transfer and link together the corresponding files on the receiving side. Without this option, hard-linked files in the transfer ...