Tag: rsync

• Backing up with tar or rsync? [Freedompenguin]

  There’s a decision to make when you want to write your scripts when it’s time to back things up: use tar or rsync?

  jedreynolds

  April 11, 2016

  computing, Linux, Uncategorized

  backups, Linux, rsync, scripting, tar

• Max out your IOPs with GNU Parallel

  The GNU Parallel program is a clever way to simultaneously operate thing on multiple files (and other things). Tonight, we create the most IO intensive way to copy virtual machine images from one system to another: parallel rsync. My source system is an 8-core E5 with 32G of ram. I’m trying to backup 400+GB of…

  jedreynolds

  November 11, 2015

  computing, Linux

  gnu, Linux, parallel, rsync