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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