Questions tagged [rsync]
rsync is a tool to efficiently copy directory hierarchies, locally or remotely, with powerful filters to decide what gets copied.
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Why does rsync not copy the other execute bit when copying to an sshfs mount?
I have a mounted sshfs drive at /mnt/backup_datascrape with permission rwxrwxr-x. I am trying to copy a directory foo with permission rwxrwxr-x to that mount using rsync while preserving the ...
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Permission denied when executing an rsync command using a third server to copy a file over to another server
I'm trying to copy files over from one server to another using a bastion server with rsync, so I have the list of origin servers and a list of target servers, the strange part is that when I use the ...
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How to Remove a Large File from ZFS Snapshots and Reclaim Space?
I have a series of daily ZFS 100Mb snapshots of archive_zp/my_zfs, going back 100 days. At day 60 (between @ss59%ss60) I had added a 10 GiB sized archive_zp/my_zfs/BIG.iso file, that 10 GiB now ...
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Unknown password for rsync
I always used to send files to other ubuntu machines via rsync with no problems. But now the computer asks for the remote computer's password every time I try to use rsync. I use the login computer's ...
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rsync recursive jumps across directories
I've used rsync recursively and, to my surprise, I witnessed this very strange behaviour in the output (I don't remember if it was deleting or creating or a combination, but I think it won't matter):
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Deleting incremental backups created with rsync and symbolic links: recursive effect?
I am doing incremental backup according to the following example found there: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-incremental-backups-using-rsync-on-linux
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Can an HTTP Request work with RSYNC?
So I know RSYNC daemon which negates the usage of SSH in order to send or receive files. However, I'm seeing there's some HTTP GET traffic along with a web-scanning user agent over port 873 to these ...
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rsync a selection of directories to destination and delete anything else there
I have read the rsync docs and looked through threads here but cannot find a simple match for my requirement.
I wish to copy a number of directories/files from source to a destination directory. I ...
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How to distribute HTTPS certificate/key securely and automatically on internal servers
I have a some internally available servers (all Debian), that share a LetsEncrypt wildcard certificate (*.local.example.com). One server (Server1) keeps the certificate up-to-date and now I'm looking ...
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Device Notifier fails to safely remove USB drive Kubuntu
I have been using the command:
rsync -av $localdir $usbdir
to back up my local directories to NTSF formatted USB drives for years. I got a new system and now have a serious problem I am hoping ...
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Rsync total progress with interrupted transfer
I'm aware of being able to display the total progress of an rsync transfer using --info=progress2, and adding --no-i-r to not have it scan incrementally and display the total progress from the start.
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Retrieve large number of files from remote server with wildcards
I'm trying to download a large number of files from a remote server. Part of the path is known, but there's a folder name that's randomly generated, so I think I have to use wildcards. The path is ...
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Rsync command to move directories and overwrite existing ones
I need an rsync command that moves directories from a source folder to a remote folder and overwrites existing directories on the remote side.
I don't want to write into existing directories on the ...
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How to quickly find the largest files/dirs that differ between two directories that should be identical on Linux?
I'm trying to synchronize two hard drives. I thought most people who don't want to lose any data and don't use RAID would use such a method so that there would be a well-working GUI. That doesn't seem ...
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Why has rsync created many hidden files that duplicate my real file names?
I have a directory that I periodically rsync to via rsync -rva.
Today I found out that for many files that I have, eg path/to/S00041.jpg, I also have an empty file with the name path/to/._S00041.jpg ...
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