rsync

Rsync is an open-source tool that is used for synchronizing and transferring files between two locations. It is widely used by system administrators and developers for efficient and reliable file transfer.

Usage

To use rsync:

rsync [options] source destination

Either source or destination can be a local folder or a remote path (user@host:path)

Options

option	description
—quiet, -q	suppress non-error messages
—archive, -a	archive mode
—recursive, -r	recurse into directories
—update, -u	skip files that are newer on the receiver
—append	append data onto shorter files
—verbose, -v	increase verbosity
—links, -l	copy symlinks as symlinks
—perms, -p	preserve permissions
—chmod=CHMOD	affect file and/or directory permissions
—owner, -o	preserve owner (super-user only)
—group, -g	preserve group
—dry-run, -n	perform a trial run with no changes made
—one-file-system, -x	don’t cross filesystem boundaries
—rsh=COMMAND, -e	specify the remote shell to use
—delete	delete extraneous files from dest dirs
—remove-source-files	sender removes synchronized files (non-dir)
—compress, -z	compress file data during the transfer
—exclude=PATTERN	exclude files matching PATTERN
—exclude-from=FILE	read exclude patterns from FILE
—stats	give some file-transfer stats
—progress	show progress during transfer
—human-readable, -h	output numbers in a human-readable format
—log-file=FILE	log what we’re doing to the specified FILE
—partial	keep partially transferred files
-P	same as —partial —progress