rsync saved my life
Written by CJB    Friday, 07 December 2007 12:06    PDF Print E-mail

 ...not really but it's a really powerful  file back up and sync tool lurking under the hood in OSX and most Linux systems.

 here's a simple command  line to backup and subsequently (going forward) one folder to another

$ rsync -vrup /path_to_folder_source /destination_path_to_folder_backup
  1. // insert your own source and destinations paths
  2.  Other functions
  3. $ man rsync
  4. -v, --verbose               increase verbosity
  5. -q, --quiet                 decrease verbosity
  6. -c, --checksum              always checksum
  7. -a, --archive               archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
  8. -r, --recursive             recurse into directories
  9. -R, --relative              use relative path names
  10. --no-relative               turn off --relative
  11. --no-implied-dirs           don't send implied dirs with -R
  12. -b, --backup                make backups (see --suffix & --backup-dir)
  13. --backup-dir                make backups into this directory
  14. --suffix=SUFFIX             backup suffix (default ~ w/o --backup-dir)
  15. -u, --update                update only (don't overwrite newer files)
  16.     --inplace               update the destination files inplace
  17. -K, --keep-dirlinks         treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
  18. -l, --links                 copy symlinks as symlinks
  19. -L, --copy-links            copy the referent of all symlinks
  20. --copy-unsafe-links         copy the referent of "unsafe" symlinks
  21. --safe-links                ignore "unsafe" symlinks
  22. -H, --hard-links            preserve hard links
  23. -p, --perms                 preserve permissions

 

 


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