rsync tutorial?
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- lukus_W20
'rsync --help' provides quite a lot information.
- sublocked0
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
- sublocked0
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.
- comicsans0
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.
- elahon0
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.
- sherm0
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?
- elahon0
*and I have about 8GB of files that I want to keep in sync between it and my desktop*
- 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?