rsync

rsync

• rsync -avzP -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

• ref0,ref1

• rsync options source destination

• options

• -v,verbose

• -r,recursively

• -a,archive mode

• -z,compress file data

• -h,human-readable,output numbers in a human-readable format

• If a file or directory not exist at the source, but already exists at the destination, you might want to delete that existing file/directory at the target while syncing .

• rsync --remove-source-files -zvh backup.tar /tmp/backups/

• rsync --dry-run --remove-source-files -zvh backup.tar /tmp/backups/

• rsync -zvhW backup.tar /tmp/backups/backup.tar backup.tar,Also, by default rsync syncs changed blocks and bytes only, if you want explicitly want to sync whole file then you use ‘-W‘ option with it.