Let’s face it. Backups are great, but backup systems are even better. And one great tool for cloning your critical servers is rsync. Whether you clone your file systems to second disks or to entirely different servers, rsync can help get the synchronization done cleanly and efficiently.

In fact, rsync is one of the best tools for replicating files, directories full of files, and entire file systems — and for keeping collections of files on multiple systems in sync. It’s both wonderfully efficient and extremely versatile. So let’s take a look at how this tool works and see just how easily you can achieve workable redundancy with this very clever tool.

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