It's boring but it works.

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 ...

Linux comes with a ton of tools for administrative tasks, including backing up over a network. Thanks to rsync and ssh, this is far easier to do than you might think. If your business uses Linux for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given the comments and questions I’ve received since last week’s column on using rsync to move a file system from one disk to another, I thought we might run through some simple exercises to gain more ...

QNAP has fixed six rsync vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain remote code execution on unpatched Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Rsync is an open-source file synchronization tool that ...