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rsync --archive --delete --sparse --compress --verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable --progress /home/tempadmin/tmp/source /home/tempadmin/tmp/destination

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For images, media or any other already compressed files do not compress as you just slow things down.

 

--progress

Show progress.

Warning

Don't use with cron.

Special Use

--whole-file

Use this for first time sync if you have lots of files. 

With this option the incremental rsync algorithm is not used and the  the whole  file  is  is sent  as-is instead. The transfer may be faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the "disk" is actually a networked filesystem).  This is the default when both the source and destination are specified as local paths.

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