rsync
Transfer files either to or from a remote host (but not between two remote hosts), by default using SSH.
To specify a remote path, use host:path/to/file_or_directory
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More information: https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1.
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Transfer a file:
rsync {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Use archive mode (recursively copy directories, copy symlinks without resolving and preserve permissions, ownership and modification times):
rsync --archive {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Compress the data as it is sent to the destination, display verbose and human-readable progress, and keep partially transferred files if interrupted:
rsync --compress --verbose --human-readable --partial --progress {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Recursively copy directories:
rsync --recursive {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Transfer directory contents, but not the directory itself:
rsync --recursive {{path/to/source}}/ {{path/to/destination}}
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Recursively copy directories, use archive mode, resolve symlinks and skip files that are newer on the destination:
rsync --recursive --archive --update --copy-links {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Transfer a directory to a remote host running
rsyncd
and delete files on the destination that do not exist on the source:
rsync --recursive --delete rsync://{{host}}:{{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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Transfer a file over SSH using a different port than the default (22) and show global progress:
rsync --rsh 'ssh -p {{port}}' --info=progress2 {{host}}:{{path/to/source}} {{path/to/destination}}
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