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2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Ryne Commandin Unk Rsync (Remote Sync): 10 Practical Examples of Rsync Command in Linux by Tarunika Shrivastava | Published: September 17, 2013 | Last Updated: January 3, 2015 Download Your Free eBooks NOW - 10 Free Linux eBooks for Administrators | 4 Free Shell Scripting eBooks Rsyne (Remote Syne) is a most commonly used command for copying andsynchronizing files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unixsystems. With the help of rsync command you can copy and synchronize your data remotely and locally across directories, across disks and networks, perform data backups and mirroring between two Linux machines. ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! ws 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Ryne Commandin Unk 10 rsync Commands For File Synchronize Reyne Local and Remote File Synchronization This article explains 10 basic and advanced usage of the rsyne command to transfer your files remotely and locally in Linux based machines. You don't need to be root user to run rsyne command. Some advantages and features of Rsync command «= Itefficiently copies and sync files to or from a remote system, = Supports copying links, devices, owners, groups and permissions. «Its faster than scp (Secure Copy) because rsync uses remote- update protocol which allows to transfer just the differences between two sets of files. First time, it copies the whole content of a ile or a directory from source to destination but from next time, it copies only the changed blocks and bytes to the destination = Rsyne consumes less bandwidth as it uses compression and decompression method while sending and receiving data both ends Basic syntax of rsync command ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! ane 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk [power Some common options used with rsync commands = -v: verbose = -1: copies data recursively (but don't preserve timestamps and permission while transferring data = -a: archive mode, archive mode allows copying files recursively and it also preserves symbolic links, file permissions, user & group ownerships and timestamps = -z: compress file data = -h: human-readable, output numbers in a human-readable format Install rsync in your Linux machine We can install rsyne package with the help of following command am l Red Hat 7 -3 Debian | 1. Copy/Sync Files and Directory Locally Copy/Sync a File on a Local Computer This following command will sync a single file on a local machine from one location to another location. Here in this example, a file name backup.tameeds to be copied or synced to /tmp/backups/ folder. ipuhwww Ieemin.comirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! ans 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk In above example, you can see that if the destination is not already exists rsync will create a directory automatically for destination. Copy/Sync a Directory on Local Computer The following command will transfer or sync all the files of from one directory to a different directory in the same machine. Here in this example /root/rpmpkgs contains some rpm package files and you want that directory to be copied inside /tmp/backups! folder 2. Copy/Sync Files and Directory to ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! ana 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Ryne Commandin Unk or From a Server Copy a Directory from Local Server to a Remote Server This command will syne a directory from a local machine to a remote machine.For example: There is a folder in your local computer “pmpkgs” which contains some RPM packages and you want that local directory’s content send to a remote server, you can use following command. Copy/Sync a Remote Directory to a Local Machine This command will help you sync a remote directory to a local directory. Here in this example, a directory /home/tarunika/rpmpkgs which is on a remote server is being copied in your local computer in /tmp/myrpms ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! 53 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk 3. Rsync Over SSH With rsyne, we can use SSH (Secure Shell) for data transfer, using SSHprotocol while transferring our data you can be ensured that your data is being transferred in a secured connection with encryption so that nobody can read your data while it is being transferred over the wire on the internet. Also when we use rsyne we need to provide the user/root password to accomplish that particular task, so using SSH option will send your logins in an encrypted manner so that your password will be safe. Copy a File from a Remote Server to a Local Server with SSH To specify a protocol with rsync you need to give *-e" option with protocol name you want to use. Here in this example, We will be using “ssh” with -e" option and perform data transfer. ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! an Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk Copy a File from a Local Server to a Remote Server with SSH 4. Show Progress While Transferring Data with rsync To show the progress while transferring the data from one machine to a different machine, we can use ‘-progress’ option for it. It displays the files and the time remaining to complete the transfer. ipuhwww Ieemin.comirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! m3 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk 5. Use of —include and —-exclude Options These two options allows us to include and exclude files by speci parameters with these option helps us to specify those files or directories which you want to include in your syne and exclude files and folders with you don't want to be transferred. Here in this example, rsync command will include those files and directory only which starts with ‘R’ and exclude all other files and ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! ars 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Ryne Commandin Unk directory 6. Use of —delete Option Ifa file or directory not exist at the source, but already exists at the destination, you might want to delete that existing file/directory at the target while syncing . We can use ‘-delete' option to delete files that are not there in source directory Source and target are in sync. Now creating new file test txt at the target ipuhwww Ieemin.comirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! a8 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk [Sst ts soot crescents | Target has the new file called test.txt, when synchronize with the source with “-delete’ option, it removed the file test.txt. 7. Set the Max Size of Files to be Transferred You can specify the Max file size to be transferred or sync. You can do it with “-max-size” option. Here in this example, Max file size is 200k, so this command will transfer only those files which are equal or smaller than 200k ipuhwww Ieemin.comirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! soe 2isn016 Reyne (Remote Syne): 10 Practical Examples of Reyne Commandin Unk 8. Automatically Delete source Files after successful Transfer Now, suppose you have a main web server and a data backup server, you created a daily backup and synced it with your backup server, now you don't want to keep that local copy of backup in your web server. So, will you wait for transfer to complete and then delete those local backup file manually? Of Course NO. This automatic deletion can be done using ‘“remove-sourcesfiles’ option. 9. Do a Dry Run with rsync If you are a newbie and using rsync and don't know what exactly your command going do. Rsyne could really mess up the things in your destination folder and then doing an undo can be a tedious job ipuhwuw Ieemintcomirsyne-lcal-remote-le-synctrerizaon-commands! wa azote Ryne (Remote Syne): 10 Praceal Examples of Reyne Commandin Linx Use of this option will not make any changes only do a dry run of the command and shows the output of the command, if the output shows exactly same you want to do then you can remove ““

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