[TriLUG] copying files

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 11:42:37 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> You don't need rsyncd.  But you do need some transport protocol. For
> instance, with ssh:
>
> rsync -az -e ssh user at server.com:/some/dir /to/here
>
>

That's right.  Very few of us are still using rsyncd.  Ssh is a great
protocol and in this case uses zlib for compression as well.  If you
use the user at server.com the -e ssh is invoked by default since 2004.

It's fun, just use it :)

sean
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