rsync Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• [Q] paperless-ngx: migrate to new host with UTF8 files?

  Give rsync a try, it should handle UTF filenames just fine. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Set Location option is broken. Deletes file instead of moving it.

  ~ Esp. For larger torrents, I think it's useful to use your file manager or something like rsync to manually copy the files, then move it in qBittorrent and afterwards you can remove the files yourself from the original location as to avoid your files from being lost? For me the 'move torrent' function in qBittorrent seems to be a bit quicker this way. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago

• Download Google Photos with all metadata at once (natively)

  Rclone is a bit like rsync, but aims to connect to any cloud storage provider, including Google Photos and Google Drive. I can "easily" download your files from the cloud provider, or upload files, or many other features. The interface is command-line, which can look intimidating for some users. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Looking for feedback on my backup process

  • I then copy the contents of my main drive to a number of external hard drives (which also will be spinning disc and encrypted) using rsync. I'll keep most of these external drives at home but always make sure that I have at least one hard drive stored at a different location. From time to time, I'll swap this offsite hard drive with one of my newly backed up hard drives from home. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• What are rsync and failovers?

  Https://rsync.samba.org is not only a file transfer tool, but it can synchronize directories locally or over the network using ssh, stunnel or its own protocol(you'll have to run rsync in daemon mode on one of the hosts for that). It can copy/update files that are missing on the target host and (optionally) it can delete files that have been deleted on the source, but are still present on the target. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• MySQL shell: the best tool for your logical backups

  Before we can import the data into a local MySQL instance, we need to download the relevant part of the dump to the local machine. Our import script uses rsync with a set of pre-configured --include and --exclude options under the hood to do that. Overall, we can typically download only about 2 GB of data out of the 23 GB dump. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Need programmers advice on a complex project. Is this possible?

  Never used it myself, but I am pretty sure you can do this with syncthing. The other possibility that comes to mind is to use rsync and whatever scheduling facility your OS provides. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Can't get rsync to ignore .git directories

  [email protected]:~/Downloads/rsync$ rsync --version Rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2018 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc Rsync comes with... - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Need help with data migration and deduplication

  I have also heard people talking about using other programs that have reduplication built in as a way to accomplish this, most notable rsync and also borg backup. These require a bit more confidence in one's skills than I have at the moment for the task at hand. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago