The Finder's abilities to copy files is usually adequate, but sometimes when managing large data transfers it can introduce some burdensome quirks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

It's time for my semi-annual 'migrate all data to new spindles' excercise. I'm copying about 2 Tb from the old fileserver to a temp drive hung off another box (One Debian, one Ubuntu). I'm using rsync ...

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 ...

Trying to figure out how to rsync our SAN data from the 'live' partition to the 'backup' partition. We have a directory of 'preview' thumbnails so that you can 'zoom' in on a photo, previously just ...

Copying files between computers is made easy via terminal and GUI. But before you start the copying process please pause a moment and consider the following: ...