RSYNC

RSYNC

• Can transfer files inside local machine, between local & remote & remote to remote
• Uses OpenSSH to trasnfer files
• Preferred for source to destination kind of sync (one direction rather than birectional sync)

rsync srcFolder userName@serverIP:/destFolder
rsync srcFolder destFolder 

rync -avP src dest

RSYNC Flags

a - archive mode allows metadata transfer to have exact match file on the destination

v - verbose will list the copying files

z - compress the file and then transfer

-P - shows progress

–dry-run - test run

–delete - syncs delete too

–remove-source-files - removes file from source

RSYNC Local Folder with a Server

//push local to remote
rsync -avz --exclude='.git' -e 'ssh -i /pathToSSHPrivateKey' /pathToLocalFolder serverUser@serverIP:/pathToRemoteFolder 
//pull remote to local
rsync -avz --exclude='.git' -e 'ssh -i /pathToSSHPrivateKey' serverUser@serverIP:/pathToRemoteFolder/ /pathToLocalFolder/