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Rsync tips

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- [Instructor] Before we move on, I'd like to share some tips about working with Rsync. The first is that if you're manually running an Rsync job that might take a while, use screen or tmux to protect that job from being interrupted. Of course, Rsync can pick up where I left off if we run the same job again but it's even better to not have to do that. If you'd like to learn more about screen or tmux, take a look at my course about command line multitasking here on LinkedIn learning. Another tip is to be very aware of how different file systems handle metadata like permissions and extended attributes. If you're working with file systems like those from macOS or NTFS or FAT32 and exFAT, each of these handles various metadata differently. And some like FAT32 and exFAT have extremely limited support for attributes like permissions that we're used to having on Linux systems For that reason and others, always look at error…

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