You can sync two directories using command rsync.
Practical example is to run next command:
rsync -avz --delete /sourceDirectory /destinationDirectory
This will sync /destinationDirectory with content of /sourceDirectory, with additional:
- a for archive more (more to follow about this),
- v for verbose, and
- z for zip compression.
Option --delete means that rsync delete option deletes files that are not there in source directory.
Archive more option does the following:
- Recursive mode
- Preserves symbolic links
- Preserves permissions
- Preserves timestamp
- Preserves owner and group
This kind of syncing directories is useful for daily incremental backup.
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