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Tips on rsync

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. The command rsync -avh src_dir des_dir (src_dir has no trailing slash) synchronizes the whole directory src_dir into the destination directory des_dir while rsync -avh src_dir/ des_dir (src_dir/ has …

Backup Files Using "rsnapshot"

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

To truncate the relative path while backing up using Rsnapshot:

  1. Uncomment the line started with rsync_long_args.

  2. Remove the --relative option and add the --no-relative option.

Tips on TeamDrive

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. fix a startup issue

    LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 /usr/bin/synqion
    
  2. TeamDrive 4 asking users to buy a commerical license frequently, which is very annoying. It is suggested that you stay with TeamDrive …

Tips on Resilio Sync

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. BitTorrent Sync does not synchronize files that you do not have the right permissions.

  2. Do not modify the same file in a short time on different computers, as this potentially causes …