Here is a brief description of rsync usage:
-Usage: rsync [OPTION]... SRC [USER@]HOST:DEST
+Usage: rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
or rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC DEST
- or rsync [OPTION]... SRC DEST
+ or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST
or rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
- or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [USER@]HOST::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 ~ extension)
+ -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
-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
+ -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
--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
- --suffix=SUFFIX override backup suffix
--version print version number
--daemon run as a rsync daemon
--config=FILE specify alternate rsyncd.conf file
--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
+
SETUP
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