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Two-way rsync results in oscillating content
I am trying to sync content between two servers. The servers are identical builds (Ubuntu 12.04LTS) and have this cron job running to sync the content:
rsync -arzc --update --delete ...
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Most Efficient way to back up/sync large directories over SSH
I'm looking to back up some large directories on a Dedicated Server to another Server on a daily basis using minimal bandwidth
RSync looks like its up to the task but I'm unsure of the best command ...
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Rsync — Itemized List of Changes
I've learned that with the -i option, I can get rsync to list all the changes it makes. I've been using it along with the -n or --dry-run options so that I can always learn about all expected changes ...
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Synchronize the files from One folder of a Server to other
I need a script in which Files of One server will be copied to other folder of another server ONLY AND ONLY IF the file on SOURCE SERVER file doesn't exist on DESTINATION SERVER.
Further Detail
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rsync list of files in sub-directories to remote server and delete extraneous
I haven't been able to find the answer to this one. I have tried all kinds of combinations of --include, --exclude, -r, --delete-excluded, and source directory.
This is what I'm trying to accomplish:
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1answer
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rsync hardlink attempt copies
I've tried setting up a script to hardlink my files to my box.com account (as it's a backup of my music library). As I want to run it automatically to sync my music across several devices, I wanted to ...
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Backup and synchronization
I want to synchronize my personal document repository between my different computers in my home. Today this folder is under a dedicated partition of the hard drive of a dual boot workstation.
My ...
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2answers
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How to use rsync with a remote remote host
I am a happy user of rsync -e ssh and use it to synchronize data between my machine and a remote host using
rsync -avz -e ssh me@hostA:~/folder ~/folder
And this did what I needed until now.
I am ...
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Synchronize directory tree with deduplication?
I have two Linux servers that have a large amount of data (1TB+) that need to be synchronized over a slow connection (100 KB/s).
A lot of the data overlaps, but are in different locations.
I would ...
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Real Time Local File Sync
How can I set up an instant file sync for two local directories? The catch is I need it in real time (15, 10 or even 5 seconds is too slow), and I don't want the target root directory created.
For ...
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Syncing directories in both directions with rsync
I happen to know about rsyn, and I use rsync to sync between my mac and a linux server as follows.
rsync -r -t -v MAC LINUX
rsync -r -t -v LINUX MAC
I expected to run the first command to sync, but ...
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Sync a local directory with a remote directory in Linux
I have a folder with a few files in it, and some space on a web server. I want to do a bi-directional sync between the local folder and the remote one in linux, just on modification time. How do I ...
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scp without replacing existing files in the destination
How do I copy an entire directory into a directory of the same name without replacing the content in the destination directory? (instead, I would like to add to the contents of the destination folder)
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