7-zip

What are most efficient compression format? RAR, ACE?
According 7-zip’s developers his format is the best . I use very often 7z format and my unique complain is that is it slow to compress. The install package has a command line tool too.
Take a look: www.7-zip.org

Robocopy

Imagine you need keep in sync two servers with 100 GB of data.
Some files are modified but you don’t know what they are. A possible solution would be delete everything and copy again. But it takes long, long time…
The utility Robocopy that comes with Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit can help to solve this problem. [...]

Emerge or YUM by proxy

In case you need to use emerge from Gentoo Linux or Yum from Fedora or CentOS by a proxy that not requires authentication just use the command below:
export http_proxy=ip_or_servers_name:port
If your proxy requires authentication use:
export http_proxy=”http://username:password@ip_or_servers_name:port”
If you use Gnome, version 2.18 or superior when set up Network Proxy [...]