rsync
An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. (by RsyncProject)
rmlint
Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem (by sahib)
rsync | rmlint | |
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45 | 19 | |
3,604 | 2,102 | |
4.5% | 1.1% | |
8.5 | 8.6 | |
4 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rsync
Posts with mentions or reviews of rsync.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-23.
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Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab
Rsync - Fast file copying and syncing
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Researchers have identified a total of 6 vulnerabilities in rsync
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/702
It impacts those who need to use `-r` (recursive) together with `-H` (preserve hardlinks),
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Cache Directory Tagging Specification (2004)
Support in rsync seems to be lacking, unfortunately: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/499
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Configure SSH between your PC and mobile
So we have our SSH connection all oiled and ready to go. In the next post on the series, we will see how can we use Rsync to sync our music files, bidirectionally. See ya, on the next tab.
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Sync music between your PC and mobile using Rsync
Rsync is a command-line tool that enables syncing files and directories between the local and remote system. It's highly flexible and it's similar to scp, if you worked on scp before, the rsync is just scp on steroids.
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Which synchronization tool are you using together with the pCloud Crypto Folder?
rsync can be used to synchronize a local disk to the pCloud drive p. Works similarly as the Sync option of the pCloud Drive app. May be useful if one prefers a bulk upload once a day over a continuous synchronization.
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Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies
Tools that can be used to handle this include Rsync, Duplicati, Cohesity
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Use rsync to Sync a Node Project to Dropbox and Ignore the node modules Folder
To overcome this issue, you can use rsync, a powerful command-line tool for synchronizing files and directories, along with a bash script that excludes the node_modules folder and also filter out anything in a .gitignore file that you specify. In this article, I'll guide you through the process of setting up and using this bash script to sync your Node.js project while ignoring the node_modules folder.
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rsync error between windows and oracle linux
On OL9 I installed rsync using https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/blob/master/INSTALL.md and installing dependencies using the For Fedora 33 commands where possible except xxhash which wasn't found, so I used https://oraclelinux.pkgs.org/9/ol9-codeready-builder-aarch64/xxhash-devel-0.8.1-3.el9.aarch64.rpm.html
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i have seen a video about syncthing and I am interested, but I would have a slightly different use case
rsync will probably work better for this use case
rmlint
Posts with mentions or reviews of rmlint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-25.
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Hyperspace
See the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38113396 for a list of alternatives. I used https://github.com/sahib/rmlint in the past and can't complain.
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fdupes: Identify or Delete Duplicate Files
My preferred solution is rmlint [https://github.com/sahib/rmlint] mostly because it also looks at duplicate directories. It produces a bash script instead of deleting anything itself, so you can examine it before running the script it made.
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ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged
After I removed duplicates (with help of https://github.com/sahib/rmlint ), I migrated my photos to an ordinary zpool instead.
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I decluttered 14,000 digital items within a few hours. Here's how I did it.
For the technically savvy among you there is an excellent open source program called ‘rmlint’ (aka. Remove Lint). It is excellent at finding duplicates and saved me terabytes of space.
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Looking for Powerful Deduplication software
You don’t say if you are on Windows or Unix. I have used rmlint successfully in the past.
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the very best anti-duplicate app ?
dupeguru or rmlint
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deleting duplicates programs?
rmlint, my friend, is the last tool you will ever need for this
- script to remove redundant parent directories
- Is there software that scans for duplicates?
- data hoarding software
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rsync and rmlint you can also consider the following projects:
openrsync - BSD-licensed implementation of rsync
fdupes - FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
jdupes - A powerful duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of 'fdupes'.
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
dupeguru - Find duplicate files