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Exploring additional rsync options - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
Exploring additional rsync options
- [Instructor] Now that we have a bit more context about how Rsync works and some experience with basic or frequently used options, I'd like to spend some time to point out other options beyond the basics that you might find useful when designing your Rsync jobs. The log file option lets us specify where Rsync will save a log of a jobs activity. This is helpful for record keeping and for checking that a job ran as expected. The format of the log file includes quite a bit of information, aside from the date and time of the transfer and the file name. This block of information here uses individual characters to represent various statuses, like which direction something was sent, what kind of file it was, and which attributes were changed. A general expression of the string is Yxcstpoguaxf. Where capital Y represents the direction, capital X represents the type of file, and the rest of the letters represent other attributes.…
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