14 Practical examples of the rsync command | Linux Today

14 Practical examples of the rsync command

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Yoander Valdes Rodriguez
Jun 13, 2016

Rsync is a fast and versatile file synchronization tool that allows to copy and sync files locally and from rsync service or any device that supports remote shell. Rsync offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behaviour and permit very flexible specification of the set of files to be copied.

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Yoander Valdes Rodriguez

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