If you have multiple servers and need to duplicate a folder from one to the other… just SSH in and run your rsync script. The possibilities are not only endless, they’re exciting.

A simple script that can save you having to check the manpage every time you want to back up your home directory with rsync can reduce the process to typing a single short word.

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 ...

I have scripts running locally and remotely, using rsync over SSH. Before doing the rsync, the local system reads the remote sparsedisk's password from a local (root access only) file and transmits it ...

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 ...

At the moment I have an rsync job that copies data from a local drive to a remote drive via an SMB mount. It seems to be working well, but I was wondering if there's any disadvantage in doing it ...

Instead of requiring authentication via the normal SSH transport, rsync can use its native transport based on predetermined secrets to allow authenticated or anonymous synchronization requests.

Last month we covered setting up an rsync server for anonymous access. Listing 1 shows the sample rsyncd.conf file from last month, illustrating some options particularly useful for tightening ...

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, ...

In most private networks the rsync client tool is used via SSH to fulfill his tasks. In an open environment rsync is run in server mode accepting connections from many untrusted hosts with, but mostly ...