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Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon

Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon. It offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behavior and permit very flexible specification of the set of files to be copied. It is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination. Rsync is widely used for backups and mirroring and as an improved copy command for everyday use.

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rsync replicate existing rsync server data

I have a master backup system that rsync's with windows servers and does incremental backups with the --link-dest flag. Works great. Each day it looks at the previous day and only backs up what changes with hard links. I have spun up another server…
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Rsync Webmin from master VPS1 to child VPS2

I am attempting to replicate(rsync) the etc/webmin directory from the Master VPS (VPS-1) to the Child VPS (VPS-2). However, after performing the copy, the server summary on the Child VPS still displays the IP address of the Master VPS. My goal is to…
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rsync directory is smaller at destination

I am having a difficult time using rsync from my computer to a remote server. I have a folder with a few sub directories and a lot of small files. On my computer the total size of my directory (using du -h) is 6.4GB. When I try to rsync it to the…
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Rsync when system resource utilization is low

I have a machine that suffers periods of resource contention (CPU or Memory or Disk or some combination) and I don't want Rsync to add to the problem when that occurs. Is it possible to setup Rsync to that it "slows dow" or stops during periods of…
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Migrating form Hostinger VPS to DigitalOcean Droplet Ubuntu 22.04

I am planning to migrate a Linux server to a new machine using rsync for a complete clone. What are the best practices to ensure a successful migration, including preserving configurations, libraries, and applications? I'm doing this because the…
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rsync skip transferring files that take longer than n minutes

I run rsync as a cron job within a script. Sometimes transfer speed falls down and my large files (say over 1G) take so long to transfer and this stops my script functionality. Is there a way I can tell rsync to stop sending a file if it takes more…
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How to install rsync 3.2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04.2

I want to isntall rsync 3.2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 - however I'm not sure if that's possible; currently I have 3.1.3 installed on the system (which is installed by default). I found this question but it only mentions 3.2.3 which doesn't interest…
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rsync Connection getting failed to remote server

I've configured a rsync server on a Windows Server 2019 (Server Name - ServerX). rsync is working fine within the ServerX. But none of my local machines are connected to ServerX via rsync. rsync is getting failed between my local machine and…
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How to rsnapshot keep mirror backup and 'retain' directories have only deleted and changed files

I'm triyng/testing rsnapshot in my Ubuntu desktop to make incremental backups from a remote server to my desktop. I use a custom config file where I set retain alpha 7 I executed rsnapshot -V -c /path-to/rsnapshot-my1.conf alpha and the backup was…
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"rsync: [generator] mknod … failed: File name too long (36)" though file & path name lengths are way shorter than 255 & 4096

On a QNAP NAS I'm trying to copy a huge backup directory from internal to an USB disk. The backup set was created using back-in-time, therefore it uses hard-links for deduplication and encfs generated file & directory names. Running rsync -aH…
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backup /home over sftp - root

My current task is to set up a (remote) backup (using rsync/rsnapshot) over sftp of /home (linux). Obviously some files are read only for the owner (ie -r-------; and should stay that way) so i guess I'll need the root user to back up those files.…
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rsync failure not detected by duply/duplicity; corrupted backup "successful"

First of all, I recognise these are not the most recent versions of duply and duplicity. The client runs servers on various OS versions, and we currently install duply and duplicity from the system repositories. I've searched and can find no…
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Does daily rsync OS backup push SSD drives to its limits?

Since past year I'm using Rsnapshot (which uses rsync) to do my daily laptop Linux Ubuntu OS backup to a local NAS. Some months ago I started having serious problems with the OS stability. It seems like the disk drive gets damaged, so the fsck needs…
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rsync: updated files to new folder

rsync allows to copy/synchronize folders without transferring files that already have been synchronized before and that did not change since last run. For that, you typically have to specify the source and target destination, and the updates are…
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Does the rsync command will end once it is completed

I'm running a command to sync the folder. I would like to know whether the rsync command will keep on running even if all files are synced. Since I'm having script #!/bin/bash function simSync { ssh zsclxengcc1d mkdir -p $RESULTS rsync -avzh…
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