Rsync vs scp

rsync or remote synchronization is a software utility for Unix-Like systems that efficiently sync files and directories between two hosts or machines.

One is the source or the local-host from which the files will be synced, the other is the remote-host, on which synchronization will take place.

Rsync command in linux to copy directory

Rsync command in linux to copy directory

Man rsync

Rsync copy directory recursively

Rsync command

Rsync to remote server

There are basically two ways in which rsync can copy/sync data:

• Copying/syncing to/from another host over any remote shell like ssh, rsh.
• Copying/Syncing through rsync daemon using TCP.

Rsync is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, in which it copies only the differences between the source files present in the local-host and the existing files in the destination or the remote host.

Example:

rsync local-file user@remote-host:remote-file

What Happens Here:

Rsync will first use SSH to connect as the to remote-host and will ask for password.

Once connected, it will invoke the remote host’s rsync, and then the two programs will determine what parts of the local-file need to be copied so that the remote file mat

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