rsync -avz --delete <user>@<server>:/home/user/ /home/user/-a: archive mode-v: increase verbosity-z: compress file data during the transfer--delete: delete extraneous files from dest dirs--exclude=PATTERN: exclude files matching PATTERN--info=progress2: statistics--dry-run/-n: trial run
-e: specify the remote shell to use
Copy from srv01.example.com to local over jump01.example.com:
rsync -avz -e "ssh -J user@jump01.example.com" user@srv01.example.com:/path/to/source/ /path/to/target/Changes owner of the data:
rsync -avz --delete --chown=user02:user02 /home/user01/www/ /home/user02/www/If you want to delete a directory with several million files, rm -rf folder is extremely slow. rsync is faster.
mkdir empty
rsync -a --delete empty/ folder/
If user@srv01.example.com only can read the data with sudo:
rsync -avz --rsync-path="sudo rsync" user@srv01.example.com:/source/path /target/path