rsync and Scp command in Linux

How to use Scp command in Linux Operating System.

With the scp (secure copy) command you can easily copy from and to a remote computer or between remote computers.

root@manish.bhadnari#] scp <Source> <destibation>



How to use rsynce command in Linux Operating System.

rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that scp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file already exists.

The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the differences between two sets of files across the network link, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package.



@ How to Install rsync command in Linux.

#yum install rsync


@Comman rsync command options

    --delete : delete files that don't exist on sender (system)
    -v : Verbose (try -vv for more detailed information)
    -e "ssh options" : specify the ssh as remote shell
    -a : archive mode
    -r : recurse into directories
    -z : compress file data


For more details for rsync read mention link:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_rsync.htm