-E, --executability preserve executability
--chmod=CHMOD affect file and/or directory permissions
-A, --acls preserve ACLs (implies -p)
- -X, --xattrs preserve extended attrs (implies -p)
+ -X, --xattrs preserve extended attributes
-o, --owner preserve owner (super-user only)
-g, --group preserve group
--devices preserve device files (super-user only)
dit(bf(-X, --xattrs)) This option causes rsync to update the remote
extended attributes to be the same as the local ones. This will work
-only if the remote machine's rsync supports this option also. This is
-a non-standard option.
+only if the remote machine's rsync also supports this option.
dit(bf(--chmod)) This option tells rsync to apply one or more
comma-separated "chmod" strings to the permission of the files in the
dit(bf(-n, --dry-run)) This tells rsync to not do any file transfers,
instead it will just report the actions it would have taken.
-dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) With this option the differential rsync algorithm
+dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) With this option the delta transfer algorithm
is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead. The transfer may be
faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and
destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the
Note that if bf(--whole-file) is specified (or implied), any partial-dir
file that is found for a file that is being updated will simply be removed
(since
-rsync is sending files without using the differential rsync algorithm).
+rsync is sending files without using the delta transfer algorithm).
Rsync will create the em(DIR) if it is missing (just the last dir -- not
the whole path). This makes it easy to use a relative path (such as
per second, and the transfer will finish in 4 seconds if the current rate
is maintained until the end.
-These statistics can be misleading if the differential transfer algorithm is
+These statistics can be misleading if the delta transfer algorithm is
in use. For example, if the sender's file consists of the basis file
followed by additional data, the reported rate will probably drop
dramatically when the receiver gets to the literal data, and the transfer