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Handy rsync tricks (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 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