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How to Secure Rsync | UpGuard

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: Modern enterprise data centers are a complex mix of different technologies geared towards accomplishing business goals. Some of these technologies are pricy, big-name business solutions, but some are simple tools and utilities, facilitating processes.

One of the great advantages of rsync over other similar utilities is that it is able to easily transfer only the delta between systems.

The most basic way to protect rsync modules from accidental exposure is to restrict which external machines can talk to it.

Having a plain text file with usernames and passwords, like that of the rsync “secrets” file, is not a great idea.