Examples and notes for the use of the secure mirroring tool, rsync

Example command:

>rsync -arv --progress --rsh='ssh -p2145' ./* username@destination.com:~/Temp/Destination/

• -a copies things in archive mode, which ensures things like permissions and owner/group are retained.
• -r means to do a recursive copy, including all sub-directories and files within.
• -v means to be verbose in output and status information.
• --progress means to keep track of file progress and transfers are made.
• '--rsh='COMMAND' is which remote shell program to use, in this case overriding the default of rsh with ssh'' and providing a custom port number.
• ./* is the source files, in this case all the files and directories in the current working directory.
• username@destination.com:~/Temp/Destination/ A specification of the destination for the files, which includes a user-name, a host to connect to, and a directory to insert the files, in this case /home/username/Temp/Destination/

Links

• http://jimmyg.org/blog/2007/rsync-basics.html
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/rsync-ssh-on-different-port-448112/

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