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 ...

Let’s face it. Backups are great, but backup systems are even better. And one great tool for cloning your critical servers is rsync. Whether you clone your file systems to second disks or to entirely ...

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 ...

-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 ...

A NAS, or network-attached storage device, is great for storing files you can reach from any computer in the house. But when you upgrade to a new one, you’re stuck copying everything over by hand, ...

A simple rsync script to back up your home directory Your email has been sent Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data.

In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, "If you're not sure what this means, our ...

Forced by licensing issues, Apple replaced the rsync command-line tool in macOS with an alternative: openrsync. Here's what you should know about the change. The rsync command-line tool has been ...