You might not even like rsync. Yeah it's old. Yeah it's slow. But if you're working with Linux you're going to need to know it. In this video I walk through my favorite everyday flags for rsync. Su...

You might not even like rsync. Yeah it’s old. Yeah it’s slow. But if you’re working with Linux you’re going to need to know it.

In this video I walk through my favorite everyday flags for rsync.

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Here’s a companion blog post, where I cover a bit more detail: https://vkc.sh/everyday-rsync

Also, @BreadOnPenguins made an awesome rsync video and you should check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifQI5uD6VQ

Lastly, I left out all of the ssh setup stuff because I made a video about that and the blog post goes into a smidge more detail. If you want to see a video covering the basics of using SSH, I made one a few years ago and it’s still pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FKsdbjzBcc

Chapters:
1:18 Invoking rsync
4:05 The --delete flag for rsync
5:30 Compression flag: -z
6:02 Using tmux and rsync together
6:30 but Veronica… why not use (insert shiny object here)

  • calliope@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.

    It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      It’s fine. But yes in the Linux space. We tend to want to host ourselves. Not have to trust some administrator of some cloud we don’t know/trust.

      • calliope@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        It has been remarkably useful! I keep trying to tell people about it but apparently I am just their main use case or something.

        I would have loved it when I was using Samba to share files on my local network decades ago. It’s like a Swiss Army knife!