Good ways to send a folder from your machine to another over a network.

This example will send the Boomsrc folder and all of the contents to the remote machine under the /home/jason/Desktop directory. This is very fast and secure. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ tar cBf – Boomsrc | compress -c | ssh [email protected] "cd /home/jason/Desktop; uncompress -c | tar xBvf -"┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ tar cBf – Boomsrc … Read more

How to copy files from your machine to a backup drive. And how to do it over a network.

How to use rsync to send files from your hard disk to a backup drive. This example will copy the files from a folder to a backup drive and the ipinfo folder will be created on your backup HDD. rsync -av Documents/ipinfo/ /media/jason/Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive/Linux/ipinfo/ sending incremental file list created directory /media/jason/Seagate Expansion Drive/Linux/ipinforsync -av … Read more

How to use rsync to list filenames in a directory on a remote Linux server.

The rsync command with the –list-only parameter allows the user to list filenames on a remote machine. But by default, it looks like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ rsync –list-only [email protected]:/home/jason/Documents/ [email protected]’s password: drwxr-xr-x 4,096 2018/05/09 09:49:49 . -rw-r–r– 867,863 2018/04/19 12:44:56 altis_insurgency_altis.pbo -rw-rw-r– 681,638 2018/05/04 09:03:16 pg768.txt -rwxrwxr-x 166 2018/01/17 09:48:52 rhsafrf.0.4.5.bikey -rwxrwxr-x … Read more

How to backup your home directory easily with the rsync command.

How to use rsync to backup your home directory or whole system and skip directories that are not required to be backed up. This simple rsync command will backup the contents of your home directory to a folder on a removable drive. This command will exclude various system folders if you wish to backup the … Read more

How to use rsync to copy files from one computer to another.

This is an example where I am using the rsync command to copy files from one computer to another. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 443" [email protected]:/home/homer/Desktop/ /home/homer/Videos The authenticity of host ‘[192.168.100.4]:443 ([192.168.100.4]:443)’ can’t be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is ############################################. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: … Read more