[GRLUG] rsync help

[mooselikebriard]

I believe rsync does transfer comparison natively... from the man page

"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."

Typically I use rsync -avz --verbose --progress........

You can add -n to do a dry run and see what happens without anything
getting actually copied or modified.

On 2/27/11, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
> Ok, I have a new machine, and I started copying the home dir from my old
> one to it.  It ran for about 18 hours, copying TONS and then dropped the
> connection.
>
> Now I need to continue, but I have no idea really what's been done and
> what hasn't.  I'm thinking rsync is what I want to continue the transfer,
> but I've only used it a couple times.
>
> What command would I use to move all the files from my local dir to the
> remote machine, using rsync so that it doesn't re-transfer all the stuff
> that's already there?
>
> topher
>
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