Rsync Examples

Origen: http://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/

1- Copy/Sync Files and Directory Locally

This following command will sync a single file on a local machine from one location to another location. Here in this example, a file name backup.tar needs to be copied or synced to /tmp/backups/ folder.

Copy Files
[root@tecmint]# rsync -zvh backup.tar /tmp/backups/

Copy Directory
[root@tecmint]# rsync -avzh /root/rpmpkgs /tmp/backups/


 2- Copy/Sync Files and Directory to or From a Server

This command will sync a directory from a local machine to a remote machine. For example: There is a folder in your local computer “rpmpkgs” which contains some RPM packages and you want that local directory’s content send to a remote server, you can use following command.

Copy a Directory from Local Server to a Remote Server
[root@tecmint]$ rsync -avz rpmpkgs/ root@192.168.0.101:/home/


Copy/Sync a Remote Directory to a Local Machine
 [root@tecmint]# rsync -avzh root@192.168.0.100:/home/tarunika/rpmpkgs /tmp/myrpms