07 08 | 2011

Useful options of rsync

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember

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rsync is often used to back up systems, with options such as:

-a --archive
recurse and preserve usual attributes: symlinks, devices and special files, user and groups ownership, permissions and times;
-H --hard-links
detect and preserve hard links;
-A --acls
preserve ACLs, if you use them;
-X --xattrs
preserve extended attributes, if you use them.

In addition to these common options, rsync has plenty others, so everyone has his own recipe, but I would like to share two useful options I discovered.

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