Rsync Simplified
Jan 18, 2008 Unix
rsync is a super-useful tool. All unixes have it, and you can get it as part of cygwin for your windows PC. The most common use I have for it is to replicate a directory – either from one machine to another or from a HDD to some removeable storage.
Unfortunately, it’s a big and complicated application. The manual page begins “There are eight different ways of using rsync. They are: …” and continues to describe each in excruciating detail. So, here’s the ultra-simplified version :
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