rsync
Sign in to saversync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers by comparing the modification times and sizes of files. It is commonly found on Unix-like operating systems and is under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
Key facts
- Software.name
- rsync
- Software.logo
- Newrsynclogo.png
- Software.caption
- rsync logo
- Software.author
- Andrew Tridgell, Paul Mackerras
- Software.developer
- Wayne Davison
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Data transfer, differential backup
- Software.license
- 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later2007: GPL-3.0-only2007: GPL-2.0-only1996: GPL-2.0-or-later
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- History
- Use
- Examples
- Connection
- Algorithm
- Determining which files to send
- Determining which parts of a file have changed
- Variations
- rsync applications
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
rsync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers by comparing the modification times and sizes of files. It is commonly found on Unix-like operating systems and is under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
rsync is written in C as a single-threaded application. The rsync algorithm is a type of delta encoding, and is used for minimizing network usage. Zstandard, LZ4, or Zlib may be used for additional data compression, and SSH or stunnel can be used for security.