Directory or file synchronization is a relevant topic at IT industry. The most important use case are backups. The rsync command is an Open Source tool for synchronization. It will be used often at Linux distributions or Unix derivatives. Furthermore the administrator can synchronize files to local or remote directories. The following commands describes the usage:
#synchronize directory incremental (-r) to another local directory rsync -r -v /home/rafsob/images /backups/images #synchronize directory incremental (-r) to another remote directory via ssh rsync -r -v /home/rafsob/images root@developers-blog.org:/var/ftp/images #"-a" option defines the archiv mode #ensures that symbolic links, attributes, ownerships, and so on will be preserved rsync -r -a -v /home/rafsob/images /backups/images
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Rafael Sobek
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