Archives October 2009

There are tons of reasons why would one want to create a rsync server. For example you wish to backup your data to a remote server but you don't want to backup everything every time.

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely available under the GNU General Public License and is currently being maintained by Wayne Davison.

Munin is a great tool for performance graphing your servers, by default it will graph resources on localhost, however if you wish to monitor multiple servers from single location, then you must deploy a central Munin server.

Having central graphs mean you can have central hub of data about performance of your systems. This can later be better presented, viewed and analyzed,