It's time for my semi-annual 'migrate all data to new spindles' excercise. I'm copying about 2 Tb from the old fileserver to a temp drive hung off another box (One Debian, one Ubuntu). I'm using rsync ...

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 ...

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 ...