• Read HFS+ Partition

rsync -vr /home/user/important_directory /media/some_hdd/backups/

Hint: With a / at the end of the first directory, all sub directories are copied directly to the destination folder. Without / it will create the source folder (ex. important_directory) with all sub directories are copied to the destination folder

You have a server for example and some mails are sent directly to root. The easiest way to forward them to a real address ist to create a .forward file.

/root/.forward

  user@example.org
  

Immportant: The last line of the file have to be empty. It won't work without newline.