Here is a brief description of available options:
+Options:
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-c, --checksum always checksum
-a, --archive archive mode (same as -rlptDog)
-b, --backup make backups (default ~ extension)
-u, --update update only (don't overwrite newer files)
-l, --links preserve soft links
+-L, --copy-links treat soft links like regular files
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
-t, --times preserve times
-S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently
-n, --dry-run show what would have been transferred
+-W, --whole-file copy whole files, no incremental checks
-x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries
-B, --block-size SIZE checksum blocking size
-e, --rsh COMMAND specify rsh replacement
--rsync-path PATH specify path to rsync on the remote machine
-C, --cvs-exclude auto ignore files in the same way CVS does
--delete delete files that don't exist on the sending side
+ --force force deletion of directories even if not empty
+ --numeric-ids don't map uid/gid values by user/group name
+ --timeout TIME set IO timeout in seconds
-I, --ignore-times don't exclude files that match length and time
+-T --temp-dir DIR create temporary files in directory DIR
-z, --compress compress file data
--exclude FILE exclude file FILE
--exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE
--suffix SUFFIX override backup suffix
--version print version number
+ --daemon run as a rsync daemon
+ --config FILE specify alternate rsyncd.conf file
+ --port PORT specify alternate rsyncd port number
SETUP
Makefile and config.h appropriate for your system. Then type
"make".
+Note that on some systems you will have to force configure not to use
+gcc because gcc may not support some features (such as 64 bit file
+offsets) that your system may support. Set the environment variable CC
+to the name of your native compiler before running configure in this
+case.
+
Once built put a copy of rsync in your search path on the local and
remote systems (or use "make install"). That's it!
+RSYNC SERVERS
+-------------
+
+rsync can also talk to "rsync servers" which can provide anonymous or
+authenticated rsync. See the rsync.conf(5) man page for details on how
+to setup a rsync server. See the rsync(1) man page for info on how to
+connect to a rsync server.
+
MAILING LIST
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If you have web access then please look at
-http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/rsync
+http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
This will give you access to the bug tracking system used by the
developers of rsync and will allow you to look at other bug reports or
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Rsync was written by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras, and is
-available under the GPL.
+available under the Gnu Public License.
-Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au
+tridge@samba.anu.edu.au
paulus@cs.anu.edu.au
AVAILABILITY
------------
-The main ftp site for rsync is ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync
+The main ftp site for rsync is ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync
+This is also available as rsync://samba.anu.edu.au/rsyncftp/
Mirrors are available at:
ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/unix/rsync
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/admin/rsync
+ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/network/rsync/