Most modern hard disks have S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) technology built in which, if enabled, allows you to query the hard drive about it's health and performance. Let's look at some of the critical attributes and how you can determine the health of your hard disk.

There are 3 options to run rsync server on windows, explained below with pros and cons and instructions.

I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server. Also the changes should be merged bi-directionally. I had few options like subversion or unison. I chose subversion because of greater familiarity and also because all of our source code is maintained in Subversion. Here are the simple steps which you too can use to keep your production and development server in sync.