port_var = input("What is the port number that ssh is listening to on the remote server?\n") user_var = input("What is the ssh username? root = an example\n") passwd ...

A simple and efficient incremental backup script using rsync with automatic rotation. Keeps only the latest N backups, deleting the oldest one when a new backup is created.

Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data. Overcome that neglectful tendency, and protect your data from accidental loss ...

Not sure if this is of any interest to anybody, but during my Googling the other day I found a niftly little script that rsync's the Slackware-current tree on the local machine, removes extra stuff ...

One of my favorite utilities on the Linux command-line, and block storage is one of my favorite features on Linode's platform, so in this article I get to combine both of these together - because what ...

Hi everyone,<br><br>Since this issue is related to rysnc, I'm asking this in the Linux group. Hope I'm right -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com ...

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 ...