If you need to create an rsync backup over ssh, Jack Wallen walks you through the quick and easy process. Linux has all the tools you need to create a simple, automated network backup. Even better, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gadgets and tech weblog Engadget has put together a very detailed tutorial for setting up automatic backups on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers to a backup server using the all-powerful rsync command ...

Online backup has many benefits—safety from local catastrophe, storage on professionally maintained servers, etc.—but economy, control, and 100% guaranteed privacy aren't among them. Check out these ...

Last month we covered setting up an rsync server for anonymous access. Listing 1 shows the sample rsyncd.conf file from last month, illustrating some options particularly useful for tightening ...