Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

The open source file synchronization / backup software ' FreeFileSync ' 'I want to keep a spare notebook PC in the same way because I have stored a complete set of files in the notebook SSD' or 'some ...

In the Windows world, WinSCP is a popular SFTP client (SCP and SFTP are both SSH-encrypted file transfer protocols). In addition to these and other dedicated file transfer client programs you can find ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...