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 ...

If a bad update killed your desktop interface, don't panic. You can still trigger a Timeshift restoration from the TTY ...

Our back up was successful. How to back up a local Linux directory to a remote Linux host with rsync Your email has been sent There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the ...

Learn how to use --dry-run in Linux commands like rsync, apt, and git. Preview changes before execution to avoid data loss.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...