Friday, April 1, 2011

pfSense Open Source Firewall Distribution - Home



Home

Welcome to the home page of the pfSense project!

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. pfSense is a popular project with more than 1 million downloads since its inception, and proven in countless installations ranging from small home networks protecting a PC and an Xbox to large corporations, universities and other organizations protecting thousands of network devices. 

This project started in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall project, but focused towards full PC installations rather than the embedded hardware focus of m0n0wall. pfSense also offers an embedded image for Compact Flash based installations, however it is not our primary focus.

New to the project?

For those new to the project, we recommend reading the Common Deployments and Features page, and checking out the Screenshot Gallery.

 

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Friday, November 12, 2010

rsync info

Here is a summary of the few usable options:

Use the options like these examples:
rsync -rv
rsync -arv
rsync -arvz

r = recursive - means it copies directories and sub directories
v = verbose - means that it prints on the screen what is being copied
a = archive - means that symbolic links, devices, attributes, permissions, ownerships, etc. are preserved in the transfer
z = compress - compress file data

More Examples:

# rsync -r /CustomersArt/ /Volumes/Backup/CustomersArt/
The above example will copy the content of CustomersArt to /Volumes/Backup/CustomersArt/

# rsync -r /CustomersArt /Volumes/Backup/CustomersArt
The above example will copy the folder CustomersArt and its content to /Volumes/Backup/CustomersArt (it will create the folder: CustomersArt).

When using "/" at the end of source, rsync will copy the content of the last folder.
When not using "/" at the end of source, rsync will copy the last folder and the content of the folder.

When using "/" at the end of destination, rsync will paste the data inside the last folder.
When not using "/" at the end of destination, rsync will create a folder with the last destination folder name and paste the data inside that folder.

Sunday, July 18, 2010