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)
rsync-over-ssh-backup
script to backup selected directories using rsync over ssh (by HankB)
| rsync | rsync-over-ssh-backup | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 1 | |
| 2,329 | 0 | |
| 7.1% | - | |
| 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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 2023-12-10.
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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
- How can I publish my vault to a website with community plugins?
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Is there backup software that accounts for moved and renamed files?
I would prefer to use a revision control system, like git if keeping multiple versions of documents is important. Otherwise, if you don't find anything else to your liking, you could write your own scripts based on rsync with the clone-dest, detect-renamed, and detect-renamed-lax patches.
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[Q] paperless-ngx: migrate to new host with UTF8 files?
Give rsync a try, it should handle UTF filenames just fine.
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LXC Backup in mode "suspend" suddenly fails
While researching this issue I stumbled upon this thread where someone found out that a rsync 3.2.3 / glibc bug (github issue) leads to the error Operation not supported (95).\ my Proxmox instance is also using rsync 3.2.3: root@proxmox:~# rsync -V rsync version 3.2.3 protocol version 31 In this thread I found it's recommended to upgrade to another rsync version, but I'm not really sure how.\ \ Any thoughts on this?
- Google drive sync?
rsync-over-ssh-backup
Posts with mentions or reviews of rsync-over-ssh-backup.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-02.
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Can't get rsync to ignore .git directories
Thanks for the suggestions. I've put the script up at https://github.com/HankB/rsync-over-ssh-backup, checked in as I had been using it and updated with your suggestions. Crontab entry is in the README.md.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rsync and rsync-over-ssh-backup you can also consider the following projects:
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
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
dupeguru - Find duplicate files
rmlint - Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
mydumper - Official MyDumper Project
exiftool - ExifTool meta information reader/writer
wireguard-vyatta-ubnt - WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices