System Grab Bag

rsync Command Generator

This page allows you to generate a command that can be used easily with the rsync utility. This utility has a lot of options and can be very powerful and useful, although because it has a lot of options, the amount of them and the letters they use and such can be quite complex. This is a graphical tool that lets you easily generate an rsync command for use on your systems. If you want a full description on what everything does, you can check out the rsync man page or the rsync TLDR page.

To print the version number, you can do...

rsync --version

and to print help, you can do...

rsync --help

Your Command

rsync

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Verbosity Normal
Quiet
Verbose
Suppress Daemon Mode MOTD

Recurse into directories
Use relative path names
Dont send implied directories with the relative option

Backup Make backups (see suffix and backup dir)

Skip files that are newer on the receiver
Update destination fils in-place
Append data onto shorter files
Append with old data in file checksum
Transfer directories without recursing

Symbolic Links Copy symlinks as symlinks
Transform symlink into referent file/directory
Only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed
Transform symlink to directory into referent directory
Treat symlinked directory on receiver as directory

Preservation Preserve Hard Links
Preserve Permissions
Preserve Executability
Chmod
Preserve ACLs (implies preserve permissions)
Preserve Extended Attributes
Preserve Owner (superuser only)
Preserve Group
Preserve Device Files (superuser only)
Preserve Special Files
Preserve Modification Times
Omit directories from the times option.

Superuser Activities Receiver attempts superuser activities
Store/recover privileged attributes using xattrs

Handle sparse files efficiently
Perform a trial run with no changes made
Copy files whole (without using delta-transfer algorithm)
Dont cross filesystem boundaries
Block Size
Remote Shell
rsync Path (Remote)
Skip creating new files on receiver
Skip updating files that exist on receiver
Sender removes non-directory synchrnoized files

Deletion Delete extraenous files from destination directories
Delete files before transfer (default)
Delete files during transfer, not before
Find deletions during transfer, delete after
Delete files after transfer
Delete files even if there are I/O errors
Force deletion of directories even if not empty

Limits Maximum Files to Delete
Max Size per File
Min Size per File

Keep partially transferred files
Store partially transferred files in
Put all updated files into place at the end
Prune empty directory chains from file list
Dont map UID/GID values by User/Group name

Timeouts I/O Timeout (seconds)
Daemon Connection Timeout (seconds)

Sender/Receiver Comparison Dont skip files that match size and time
Skip files that match in size
Compare modified times with reduced accuracy
Create temporary files in
Find similar file for basis if no destination file
Also compare received files relative to
...and include copies of unchanged files in
Hardlink files when unchanged to

Compression Compress file data during transfer
Explicit Compression Level
Skip compressing these files

Filters Auto-ignore files in the same way CVS does
Exclude files matching this pattern
Read exclude patterns from
Include files matching this pattern
Read include patterns from
Read list of source files from
All *from/filter files are delimited by 0s
No space-splitting; wildcard characters only

Connection Options Bind address (outgoing socket)
Double colon alternate port number
Custom TCP Options
Use blocking I/O for remote shell

UI and Output Give some file transfer stats
Leave high-bit characters unescaped in output
Output numbers in a human readable format
Show progress during transfer
Output a change summary for all updates
Update Output Format
Log to file
Log File Format

I/O Bandwith Limit (KB/sec)
Write batched update from
Write batched update (without updating destination) from
Read batched update from
Older protocol version number
Charset conversion (iconv)
Block/File Checksum Seed (advanced)
Prefer IPv4
Prefer IPv6