It’s all of these: -r, –recursive recurse into directories -l, –links copy symlinks as symlinks -p, –perms preserve permissions -t, –times preserve modification times -g, –group preserve group -o, –owner preserve owner (super-user only) -D same as –devices –specials –devices preserve device files (super-user only) –specials preserve special files It excludes: -H, –hard-links preserve hard … Read more
I would use rsync as it means that if it is interrupted for any reason, then you can restart it easily with very little cost. And being rsync, it can even restart part way through a large file. As others mention, it can exclude files easily. The simplest way to preserve most things is to … Read more
There is now an official way to do this in rsync (version 3.1.0 protocol version 31, tested with Ubuntu Trusty 14.04). #> ./rsync -a –info=progress2 /usr . 305,002,533 80% 65.69MB/s 0:00:01 xfr#1653, ir-chk=1593/3594) I tried with my /usr folder because I wanted this feature for transferring whole filesystems, and /usr seemed to be a good … Read more
I need to run an rsync command from Python. Is this possible and if so, how do I do it?
foo/bar is on NFS (or possibly some FUSE filesystem), that might be the problem. Either way, adding -O / –omit-dir-times to your command line will avoid it trying to set modification times on directories.
From your local machine: From your local machine with a non standard ssh port: Or from the remote host, assuming you really want to work this way and your local machine is listening on SSH: See man rsync for an explanation of my usual switches.
Updated answer (Jan 2020) xargs is now the recommended tool to achieve parallel execution. It’s pre-installed almost everywhere. For running multiple rsync tasks the command would be: This will list all folders in /srv/mail, pipe them to xargs, which will read them one-by-one and and run 4 rsync processes at a time. The % char replaces the input argument for each command call. Original … Read more
The major difference between these tools is how they copy files. scp basically reads the source file and writes it to the destination. It performs a plain linear copy, locally, or over a network. rsync also copies files locally or over a network. But it employs a special delta transfer algorithm and a few optimizations to make the operation … Read more