rsync Cheat Sheet

by Richard Holloway (richardjh) via cheatography.com/478/cs/329/

rsync Usage rsync Options contd. rsync Options cont'd.

rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST --sparse, -S handle sparse files efficiently --compress-leve explicitly set compression level
l=NUM
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST --dry-run, -n perform a trial run with no changes
made --skip-compress skip compressing files with a
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST
--whole-file, -W copy files whole (without delta-xfer =LIST suffix in LIST
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:
PORT]/DEST algorithm) --cvs-exclude, -C auto-ignore files the same way
CVS does
rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC [DEST] --one-file-system, don't cross filesystem boundaries
-x --filter=RULE, -f add a file-filtering RULE
rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
--block-size force a fixed checksum block-size -F same as --filter='dir-merge /.rsyn
rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC
=SIZE c-filter'
[DEST]
--rsh=COM specify the remote shell to use repeated: --filter='- .rsync-filter'
The ':' usages connect via remote shell, while '::' & MAND, -e --exclude=PA exclude files matching PATTERN
'rsync://' usages connect to an rsync daemon, and
--rsync-path=PR specify the rsync to run on the TTERN
require SRC or DEST to start with a module name.
OGRAM remote machine
--exclude-fr read exclude patterns from FILE
--existing skip creating new files on receiver om=FILE
rsync Options
--ignore-existing skip updating files that already --include=PA don't exclude files matching
--verbose, -v increase verbosity
exist on receiver TTERN PATTERN
--quiet, -q suppress non-error messages
--remove-source- sender removes synchronized --include-fr read include patterns from FILE
--no-motd suppress daemon-mode MOTD (see files files (non-dirs) om=FILE
manpage caveat)
--del an alias for --delete-during --files-from=FILE read list of source-file names
--checksum, skip based on checksum, not mod- from FILE
--delete delete extraneous files from destin
-c time & size
ation dirs --from0, -0 all *-from/filter files are delimited
--archive, -a archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,- by 0s
--delete-before receiver deletes before transfer,
A,-X)
not during --protect-args, -s no space-splitting; only wildcard
--no-OPTION turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no- special-chars
--delete-during receiver deletes during transfer
D)
(default) --address=AD bind address for outgoing socket
--recursive, - recurse into directories DRESS to daemon
--delete-delay find deletions during, delete after
r
--port=PORT specify double-colon alternate
--delete-after receiver deletes after transfer, not
--relative, -R use relative path names port number
during
--no-implied- don't send implied dirs with --relative --sockopts=O specify custom TCP options
--delete-exc also delete excluded files from
dirs PTIONS
luded destination dirs
--backup, -b make backups (see --suffix & --back --blocking-io use blocking I/O for the remote
--ignore-errors delete even if there are I/O errors
up-dir) shell
--force force deletion of directories even
--backup- make backups into hierarchy based in --stats give some file-transfer stats
if not empty
dir=DIR DIR
--max-del don't delete more than NUM files --8-bit-output, -8 leave high-bit chars unescaped
--suffix= set backup suffix (default ~ w/o --back in output
ete=NUM
SUFFIX up-dir)
--human-readble, output numbers in a human-rea
--max-size=SIZE don't transfer any file larger than
--update, -u skip files that are newer on the -h dable format
SIZE
receiver
--min-size=SIZE don't transfer any file smaller than --progress show progress during transfer
--inplace update destination files in-place (SEE
SIZE -P same as --partial --progress
MAN PAGE
--partial keep partially transferred files --itemize-ch output a change-summary for all
--append append data onto shorter files
--partial-dir=DIR put a partially transferred file into anges, -i updates
--append- like --append, but with old data in file
DIR --out-format output a change-summary for all
verify checksum
--delay-updates put all updated files into place at =FORMAT updates
--dirs, -d transfer directories without recursing
transfer's end --log-file=FILE log what we're doing to the
--links, -l copy symlinks as symlinks specified FILE
--prune-empty- prune empty directory chains from
--copy-links, transform symlink into referent file/dir dirs, -m the file-list --log-file-form log updates using the specified
-L at=FMT FMT
--numeric-ids don't map uid/gid values by
--copy-unsaf only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed user/group name --password-file read daemon-access password
e-links =FILE from FILE
--timeout=SE set I/O timeout in seconds
--safe-links ignore symlinks that point outside the CONDS --list-only list the files instead of copying
source tree them
--contimeout set daemon connection timeout in
--copy-di transform symlink to a dir into referent seconds --bwlimit=KBPS limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per
rlinks, -k dir second
--ignore-times, -I don't skip files that match in size
--keep-di treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir and mod-time --write-batc write a batched update to FILE
rlinks, -K h=FILE
--size-only skip files that match in size
--hard-links, preserve hard links --only-write-batch like --write-batch but w/o
--modify-win compare mod-times with reduced
-H
 --modify-win compare mod-times with reduced
-H =FILE updating destination
dow=NUM accuracy
--perms, -p preserve permissions --read-batch=FILE read a batched update from FILE
--temp-dir, -T create temporary files in directory
--executa preserve the file's executability DIR --protocol=NUM force an older protocol version to
bility, -E be used
--fuzzy, -y find similar file for basis if no dest
--chmo affect file and/or directory permissions file --iconv=CONV request charset conversion of
d=CHMOD ERT_SPEC filenames
--compare-de also compare destination files
--acls, -A preserve ACLs (implies --perms) st=DIR relative to DIR --ipv4, -4 prefer IPv4
--xattrs, -X preserve extended attributes --copy-dest=DIR ... and include copies of --ipv6, -6 prefer IPv6
--owner, -o preserve owner (super-user only) unchanged files --version print version number
--group, -g preserve group --link-dest=DIR hardlink to files in DIR when --help, -h show this help ( -h works with no
unchanged other options )
--devices preserve device files (super-user only)
--compress, -z compress file data during the
--specials preserve special files Please see the rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages
transfer
-D same as --devices --special for full documentation.
See http://rsync.samba.org/ for updates, bug reports,
--times, -t preserve modification times
and answers
--omit-dir-t omit directories from --times
imes, -O

--super receiver attempts super-user activities

--fake-super store/recover privileged attrs using

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