rsync, article 1: Scenarios

This post is the first article in a series of blog posts about rsync, see the Series Overview. To motivate why it makes sense to look at rsync, I present three scenarios for which I have come to appreciate rsync: DokuWiki transfers, Software deployment and Backups. Scenario: DokuWiki transfers using rsync Recently, I set up a couple of tools for a website that is built on DokuWiki, such as a dead link checker and a statistics program. To avoid overloading the live website (and possibly causing s...

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