In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, “If you’re not sure what this means, our ...

Rsync shows up in almost every serious backup discussion, yet it is often dismissed as old, unfriendly, or outdated compared to modern backup tools with polished interfaces. I have tried a lot of ...

Forced by licensing issues, Apple replaced the rsync command-line tool in macOS with an alternative: openrsync. Here's what you should know about the change. The rsync command-line tool has been ...

Over a decade ago, Andrew Tridgell was quoted as saying, “In 50 years’ time, I doubt anyone will have ever heard of Samba, but they’ll probably be using rsync in one way or another.” As one of the ...

Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers. Rsync is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a quick file transfer between two computers, SCP is a fine program to use. For more complex, large, or regular backups, however, the go-to tool is rsync. It’s faster, more efficient, and usable in ...