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Rsync

Notes

  • the / at the end of the source dir signal that you want to copy the contents, not the dir itself.

Options

  • -P = progress and patial
  • -a = archive

Local sync 

rsync -aP /opt/source/ /opt/destination

From remote to local 

rsync -vuar --progress user@remote:/source /opt/destination

From local to remote

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In a script with locking 

#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE="/var/run/something.lock"

SOURCE_DIR="/opt/source"
DEST="-e \"ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null\" username@hostname:/opt/dest"
RSYNC_CMD="rsync -v -a --delete -O --chmod=u=rw,go=r,D+x $SOURCE_DIR/ $DEST"
flock -x -n $LOCKFILE -c "${RSYNC_CMD}"