On our local machine ' Mint' we are going to issue the command: ' CentOS' has the following files in its directory: ' Mint' currently has no files in the directory below:

In the following example we are going to use our local machine 'Mint' and our remote machine 'CentOS': The following rsync command retrieves files from a remote location to a specified directory. Grsync is basically a front end to the 'rsync' command and is available within most repositories.īelow are examples of some basic uses of the ' rsync' command for copying files: Retrieving files from a remote host with rsync

An example of a GUI rsync tool is ' Grsync'. Many tools are also available with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) that allow you to configure backups quickly. Rsync is generally run from a command line or from within a script which makes it ideally suited for making backups. The rsync tool locates files that need to be transferred using a ' quick check' algorithm that looks for any files that have changed in size or changes in the last-modified time. This makes rsync extremely useful as a backup tool. Rsync is known for its ' delta-transfer' algorithm which reduces the amount of data transferred over a network by sending only the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.

Rsync has a vast set of options that allow you to control virtually every aspect of its behaviour and the way files are copied. Rsync can copy locally, to and from another host over any remote shell, or to and from a remote rsync daemon. Rsync is a fast and powerful file copying tool.

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