rsync

Transfer files either to or from a remote host (but not between two remote hosts), by default using SSH. To specify a remote path, use user@host:path/to/file_or_directory. More information: https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1.

• Transfer a file:

rsync path/to/source path/to/destination

• Use archive mode (recursively copy directories, copy symlinks without resolving, and preserve permissions, ownership and modification times):

rsync -a|–archive path/to/source path/to/destination

• Compress the data as it is sent to the destination, display verbose and human-readable progress, and keep partially transferred files if interrupted:

rsync -zvhP|–compress –verbose –human-readable –partial –progress path/to/source path/to/destination

• Recursively copy directories:

rsync -r|–recursive path/to/source path/to/destination

• Transfer directory contents, but not the directory itself:

rsync -r|–recursive path/to/source/ path/to/destination

• Use archive mode, resolve symlinks, and skip files that are newer on the destination:

rsync -auL|–archive –update –copy-links path/to/source path/to/destination

• Transfer a directory from a remote host running rsyncd and delete files on the destination that do not exist on the source:

rsync -r|–recursive --delete rsync://host:path/to/source path/to/destination

• Transfer a file over SSH using a different port than the default (22) and show global progress:

rsync -e|–rsh 'ssh -p port' --info=progress2 host:path/to/source path/to/destination