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 ...

If you need a flexible means of backing up data on a Linux server, rsync might be your tool.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

This article aims to help you out by making use of a glorious piece of Unix software called ‘rsync’. You have to be willing to get your hands a little dirty, however, as this involves command-line ...

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For doing these backups, I use a lightweight but extremely powerful utility called "rsync". It's a command-line based utility, but can handle gigs of data across slow links, making it very ...

The rsync command can replicate collections of files from one place to another in every possible detail or it can allow you to control exactly how that replication flows — what it replicates and ...

Of rsync's command-line options, only checksum has an obvious security ramification. It tells rsync to calculate CPU-intensive MD5 checksums in addition to its normal rolling checksums, so blocking ...

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When running an rsync command, the first thing that should come after rsync is the desired switch or switches. Common switches include: -r (Recursive; includes sub-folders) -a (Archive mode; includes ...