Tag: rsync

  • Automatically Check RSYNC and Restart if Stopped

    I occasionally use RSYNC to synchronize large directories of files between servers. This is especially useful if you’re moving a client from one server to another and they have alot of static files that are always changing. You can copy the files and sync them up, all with RSYNC and if your connection gets cut…

  • RSYNC a File Through a Remote Firewall

    One of my recent tasks was to set-up a new automatic backup script, which dumps out the MySQL database on the remote host at a regular time, at a later time, it is RSYNC’d from the backup server through a remote firewall. I must say that I was a little surprised, to discover that the…