Backups don't need to be complicated. There's a whole industry built around implementing backup systems with NAS devices, RAID arrays, and software with snazzy GUI frontends. But my favorite solution ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wrote something similar with a bunch of Perl scripts. I also have a cron job that thins out the backups. I keep: The last backup of every year, indefinitely. The last 12 end-of-the-month backups.

If you need a flexible means of backing up data on a Linux server, rsync might be your tool. There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the more tried and true methods is ...

QNAP has fixed six rsync vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain remote code execution on unpatched Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Rsync is an open-source file synchronization tool that ...

Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the open source software rsync, which can be used to synchronize or even just copy files very efficiently. The rsync tool for file synchronization, ...

rsync works fine for my use-case, and I do a nightly pg_dumpall of my databases, which are quite small and therefore feasible to back up that way. I guess what I should have written is that I don't ...