Common Usage

Here is common usage,

rsync -r -t -p -o-owner -g -v --progress --delete -l -z -s /home/tempadmin/tmp/source /home/tempadmin/tmp/destination

--owner

This option causes rsync to set the owner of the destination file to be the same as the source
file, but only if the receiving rsync is being run as the super-user (see also the --super
option to force rsync to attempt super-user activities). Without this option, the owner is
set to the invoking user on the receiving side.

The preservation of ownership will associate matching names by default, but may fall back to
using the ID number in some circumstances (see also the --numeric-ids option for a full dis-cussion). discussion).
cussion).

On the Mac OS X to backup iPhoto,

rsync -r -t -p -owner -g -v --progress --delete -l -z -s /home/tempadmin/tmp/source /home/tempadmin/tmp/destination

--extended-attributes = Copy extended attributes and resource forks

Over SSH

rsync ....

# Rsync over the Internet
rsync --archive --verbose --compress --delete --progress -e "ssh -c arcfour -o Compression=no -x" /source/folder remotebackup@earth.com:/home/user:destination-folder 

# Rsync over LAN
# Same but disable all compression.

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