-Basically you use rsync just like rcp, but rsync has many additional options.
-
-Here is a brief description of rsync usage:
-
-Usage: rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
- or rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC DEST
- or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST
- or rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
- or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST
- or rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST]
-SRC on single-colon remote HOST will be expanded by remote shell
-SRC on server remote HOST may contain shell wildcards or multiple
- sources separated by space as long as they have same top-level
-
-Options
- -v, --verbose increase verbosity
- -q, --quiet decrease verbosity
- -c, --checksum always checksum
- -a, --archive archive mode
- -r, --recursive recurse into directories
- -R, --relative use relative path names
- -b, --backup make backups (default ~ suffix)
- --suffix=SUFFIX override backup suffix
- -u, --update update only (don't overwrite newer files)
- -l, --links preserve soft links
- -L, --copy-links treat soft links like regular files
- --copy-unsafe-links copy links outside the source tree
- --safe-links ignore links outside the destination tree
- -H, --hard-links preserve hard links
- -p, --perms preserve permissions
- -o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
- -g, --group preserve group
- -D, --devices preserve devices (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 (default 700)
- -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
- --delete-excluded also delete excluded files on the receiving side
- --partial keep partially transferred files
- --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
- --size-only only use file size when determining if a file should be transferred
- -T --temp-dir=DIR create temporary files in directory DIR
- --compare-dest=DIR also compare destination files relative to DIR
- -z, --compress compress file data
- --exclude=PATTERN exclude files matching PATTERN
- --exclude-from=FILE exclude patterns listed in FILE
- --include=PATTERN don't exclude files matching PATTERN
- --include-from=FILE don't exclude patterns listed in FILE
- --version print version number
- --daemon run as a rsync daemon
- --config=FILE specify alternate rsyncd.conf file
- --port=PORT specify alternate rsyncd port number
- --stats give some file transfer stats
- --progress show progress during transfer
- --log-format=FORMAT log file transfers using specified format
- --password-file=FILE get password from FILE
- -h, --help show this help screen
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