UNIX 1.15 rsync command part 1 (Video Tutorial)

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Support fuzicast.com by clicking on youtube ads and make sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos on UNIX, Perl and SQL. facebook: facebook.com/fuzicast twitter: @fuzicast youtube: youtube.com/yuejdesigner85 rsync OPTIONS SOURCE DESTINATION SOURCE/DESTINATION can be local or remote rsync sample.txt local/sample.txt rsync sample.txt yjiang@testhost:~/sample.txt rsync -e "ssh -i fuzicast-home.pem" sample.txt hadoop@testhost:~/sample.txt #use this for password-less access rsync --progress # shows progress of data transfer # you can time the following commands to check their execution time rsync -zv sample.txt yjiang@testhost:~/sample.txt # -z for compressed transfer, -v for verbose rsync -zvr local yjiang@testhost:~/ # -r for recurively copying rsync -avz local yjiang@testhost:~/ # -a does many things, recursion and preserves timestamp, permission and links # alternatively, you can use -l (preserve links), -p (preserve permission), -t (timestamp), -o (ownership), -g (group) rsync -dv local yjiang@testhost:~/ # only synchronize directory tree rsync -avz --delete local yjiang@testhost:~/ # in addition to synchronization, it will also delete any unmatched files in remote host rsync -avz --existing local yjiang@testhost:~/ # synchronize but do not add new files to DESTINATION rsync -avzi local yjiang@testhost:~/ # tells you which side has differences f+++++++ local/badfile # f means differences in file, + means its new f.st.... local/sample.txt # s means size differences, t means timestamp changed rsync -avz --exclude 'ex*' local yjiang@testhost:~/ # exclude certain files rsync -avz --max-size 200k local yjiang@testhost:~/ # set a max size for files to transfer rsync -avzW local yjiang@testhost:~/ # force whole file transfer rsync -avzn local yjiang@testhost:~/ # -n will do a dry run with no changes taken effect, it only tells you what would be changed rsync -avzu local yjiang@testhost:~/ # update remote files only if local is newer than remote give credit to http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/