Rsync

References

• linux.com article

Example Usage

Modern installations of rsync uses ssh automatically, so if server.net is an ssh server, you can run

rsync -va username@server.net:sourcedir targetdir/

Note that skipping the trailing slash on sourcedir makes rsync create a new directory targetdir/sourcedir/. To pretend to synchronize, use --dry-run:

rsync --dry-run -va username@server.net:sourcedir targetdir/

Resume Synchronization

rsync --partial --progress

or the shorthand:

rsync -P