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 ...

Looks like Rsync is my best option for backing up a couple of remote servers.<BR><BR>My question for Ars is this: what's the most secure way to do ownership and permissions?<BR><BR>I'm going to be ...

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 ...

Hello all, I am administering a small server for my research group at work. Right now we have 1 computer backed up periodically onto a removable harddrive, which is a hastle because it takes 5h to do ...

High-capacity disk drives are now widely available at prices that are incredibly cheap compared to those of only a few years ago. In addition, with so many Linux users now ripping CDs to disk, saving ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...