Featured »

March 2, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

Read the full story »
Networking

Unix and Linux network configuration. Multiple network interfaces. Bridged NICs. High-availability network configurations.

Applications

Reviews of latest Unix and Linux software. Helpful tips for application support admins. Automating application support.

Data

Disk partitioning, filesystems, directories, and files. Volume management, logical volumes, HA filesystems. Backups and disaster recovery.

Monitoring

Distributed server monitoring. Server performance and capacity planning. Monitoring applications, network status and user activity.

Commands & Shells

Cool Unix shell commands and options. Command-line tools and application. Things every Unix sysadmin needs to know.

Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: rsync

Solaris One-Liners

March 21, 2006 – 12:41 pm
sun_solaris_0001

Useful Solaris commands for system administrators

Using rsync to copy files

November 21, 2005 – 4:00 pm
hard-disk_00416535

In the following example we need to make sure that /export/home on server host2 looks exactly like /export/home on host1. Thus, our SOURCE is host1:/export/home and our TARGET is host2:/export/home
There are two ways of using …

RSync remote copy

November 19, 2005 – 10:35 pm
technology-hard_00400654

The following is an example of using rsync to perform a irectory copy between two hosts over the network.