Topic ===== remote exploit in rsync server Problem Description ===== The rsync suite provides client and server tools to easily support an administrator keeping the files of different machines in sync ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

It's block-level mirroring. Unless you are using a clustered file system (OCFSv2, GFS) you can only use the block device on one server at a time. So you setup a volume to mirror between two systems ...