The rsync command -- whether used standalone or installed as a module -- is a powerful tool for copying filesets between UNIX-style systems. It is very efficient in that it only copies new or changed ...

Capistrano::BundleRsync builds (bundle) gems only once on a deploy machine and transfers gems to your production machines via rsync, which saves you from building gems on each your production machine.

There are plenty of Backup/file synchronization tools exists for Linux and Unix platforms. Rsync is considered to be one of the most widely used and trusted backup tool. Rsync, stands for Remote Sync, ...

Rsync is a powerful and versatile file copying tool that allows you to synchronize local and remote directories. It can be used to copy files and directories between two machines, or to keep two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...