What are you favourite/useful rsync tricks these days?

Mine is rsync -r --chown=AUSER:AGROUP SRC DST to copy the files and change the ownership on the fly.

  • Hopfgeist@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    --info=progress2 for long transfers involving a large number of files. Gives continuously updated statistics on the whole transfer.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pub
    3·
    1 year ago

    My personal favorite was when we were having issues with an ssh connection and discovered using the -P flag, which will allow you to resume transfers that disconnects and -z that enables compression.

    So, for instance to get an ssh file transfer with resume support, using compression, you would use:

    rsync -avPz -e ssh user@remote-ssh-server:/source destination