Andrew Tridgell's rsync is a useful file-transfer tool, one that has no encryption support of its own but is easily “wrapped” (tunneled) by encryption tools such as SSH and Stunnel. What ...

The online version of this manpage (that includes cross-linking of topics) is available at https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync-ssl.1. The rsync-ssl script ...

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 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 ...

Over a decade ago, Andrew Tridgell was quoted as saying, “In 50 years’ time, I doubt anyone will have ever heard of Samba, but they’ll probably be using rsync in one way or another.” As one of the ...

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 ...