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My sysadmin toolbox (Linux.com)

My sysadmin toolbox (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 4, 2006 10:11 UTC (Sat) by job (guest, #670)
Parent article: My sysadmin toolbox (Linux.com)

rsync is probably one of the most important tools there is. Try to teach your fingers to type rsync instead of scp, that is a good start. (Remember to set a variable to get verbose progress mode.) It defaults to resuming transfers in a smart way and has all sorts of interesting options to use when taking backups, both remote and local.


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