How to rsync files between two servers when remote server uses an RSA key for authentication.

Format:
rsync $options $host:$from $to

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i key.rsa" \
user@domain.com:/var/www /var/www/backup

The ‘-avz’ options are used for creating archive, being verbose and compressing the file transfer.

‘-e “$command”‘ specifies the shell command to use; in this case calling the SSH RSA key used for authentication

I am a huge fan of Gnome Terminator. Terminator is great because it allows multiple terminal instances to be run in a single window.

Since I usually run two or three separate terminal windows, I ofter find myself resizing the main window – so other istances can fit nicely. This can get very boring and time consuming when you need to do something on the fly.

After snooping around the help files, I found this nice little parameter which resizes and positions the Terminator window on my screen.

/usr/bin/terminator --geometry=1024x500+128+200

This command line can be added to Gnome-do or Gnome panel shortcuts, and it works great.

The first two parameters (1024×500) set the width and height, and the other two(128+200) set the padding from left and top of the screen.