In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, "If you're not sure what this means ...

Do you really need rsync or could you use tar instead? Piping the output of tar -c into tar -x can yield some impressive performance improvements. Also which filesystem are you using. XFS ...

Forced by licensing issues, Apple replaced the rsync command-line tool in macOS with an alternative: openrsync. Here's what you should know about the change. The rsync command-line tool has been ...