New Year, New System

I've spent most of the last two weeks setting up a new server and clients ready for the school year. The server went pretty smoothly, and is performing well for the teachers. The management interface is easy and comprehensive, and of course most of the work goes on via ssh which I am used to.

http://www.linuxschools.com/

However, the client is causing me a lot of work. Its xfce on ubuntu, which sounds OK, but there are so many things to change.

rsync options

Finally got round to upgrading the family sever, which holds all our precious photos and music and was several years old (Debian Lenny). Transferring 250GB from old server to new, I didn't have space to tar up the files first. Anyway waste of time creating and gzipping the archive just to unzip it on the new server. So I used rsync with compression. While looking up the syntax, I came across this handy list,with explanations, from:

http://www.evbackup.com/support-commonly-used-rsync-arguments/