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 recently found myself needing to move several very large file systems into roomier data quarters on a disk array and began thinking about the most efficient and reliable way to get the job done. The ...

Trying to figure out how to rsync our SAN data from the 'live' partition to the 'backup' partition. We have a directory of 'preview' thumbnails so that you can 'zoom' in on a photo, previously just ...

Boring, cheap, and it has never once let me down.

It happens to the best of us. I was rsyncing about 500MB of data from a holding directory on a Linux box to a FreeBSD 5.4 developement server and inadvertently rsync'd a much older version of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're using rsync to keep a Windows 2003 NFS share in sync with a CentOS 4 NFS share.rsync is running on the CentOS box. The local CentOS NFS share is 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 ...

Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data. Overcome that neglectful tendency, and protect your data from accidental loss ...