Using rsync to Sync Two Directories
July 27, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
You can sync two directories using rsync tool. The following command:
$ rsync -a -v --delete sending_directory target_directory;
will copy sending_directory to target_directory
creating a directory structure of
sending_directory/target_directory. The --delete
flag will ensure that any files that were previously in
sending_directory/target_directory that are not in
sending_directory will be deleted so that the contents of the
two directories are the same.
Tags: cli, rsync, backups, motd
Backup Files with Specific File Extension
July 07, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
Here is how you can use rsync
to backup only the
.ogg files in the Music directory to the OGG
directory:
$ rsync -a --prune-empty-dirs --include='*/' --include='*.ogg' --exclude='*' Music/ OGG/