Rsync is a versatile tool for copying files or whole directory trees locally or over the network to another computer. rsync -a
will copy files and ensure most of attributes, ownership and permissions are carried over. Rsync over network is trivial, with SSH as the default network protocol (Rsync can also run in daemon mode).
Rsync over network as root
Often I need to do a rsync -a
between hosts on directories I’m not the ... [continue reading]