Rsync is a powerfull utility for UNIX systems which synchronizes files and folders between local and remote locations using a smart delta transfer algorithm when appropriate. It’s fast, it’s free and it has tons of handy features such as compression, recursion, bandwith limitation and more which you can benefit even in your daily life certainly if you know what to do with it and how. In order to be more familiar with the rsync advantages that can not be found in most similar applications or protocols, you may browse the documenation pages.
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For most ICT professionals, computers and related media are just means of production, not the meaning themselves. In the middle of a complicated midnight operation, imagine that your external storage starts ticking off as it tries to tell you that something is going wrong. This would embitter you as it raises doubts that your whole valuable data might be vanishing in front of your eyes, or they’ve already left the place. I know how it is depressing to leave the current work and face a hard disk issue out of the blue. But when this takes place, it means that you’ll run after your storage media in a panic to rescue your data especially if you’re not synchronizing them into another location periodically.
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