rsync tutorial? 77 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 6 months ago | Thread started: Nov 1, 11, 7:47 a.m.

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• elahon

  Got a new laptop for work, and I want to have about 8GB of files in sync with it and my desktop at home so I can quickly and easily run a script to update both sides with the most recent file changes.

  Anyone have any good tips or rsync tutorials that are more recent than 2001?

  Nov 1, 11, 7:47 a.m. – Permalink

• elahon

  *and I have about 8GB of files that I want to keep in sync between it and my desktop*

  

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink

• sherm

  how about a folder on dropbox or github(if its pure code)?
  I thought rsync was used between two linux servers... not desktop to desktop?

  

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 11:09 a.m. – Permalink

• elahon

  I might just end up going that route, but I'd rather not shell out the $$. I've found some articles about setting it up to work between computers on a network, and I've gotten it to work going one way, but not the other.

  

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 11:12 a.m. – Permalink

• comicsans

  rsync hasn't really changed that much so any tutorial will mostly be relevant.

  One tip: there is a debug switch which will tell you what would have been transferred rather actually doing it. Use this to fine tune your settings.

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  Dude just spend about 30mins - 1hr reading about rsync and you should be able to hack together a shell script to get it handled.

  Generally, it's just...

  rsync -rv [local path] user@host:/some/path

  -r is recursive, -v is verbose. Run "man rsync" to read more documentation. This isn't rocket science.

  

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 12:02 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  And you can swap the paths around if you want to pull from remote host to your localhost. That syntax would be

  rsync -rv user@host:/some/remote/path ./some/local/path

  

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  Dog-earNov 1, 11, 12:03 p.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W2

  'rsync --help' provides quite a lot information.

  

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  Dog-earNov 3, 11, 6:16 a.m. – Permalink