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Installing rsync - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
Installing rsync
- [Instructor] Rsync is available for Linux, BSD, MacOS, and similar platforms. Many Linux distro's come with Rsync already installed but if it isn't installed for you, you can usually get it through your distro's package manager. At the time I'm recording this, MacOS comes with a surprisingly old version of Rsync, so if you're following along on a Mac, know that the options and features you'll have won't match mine. You can install a newer version of Rsync on your Mac manually or with tools like Homebrew. If you're using Windows, there isn't a native version of Rsync for you but you can use Rsync in Windows subsystem for Linux or in another posix shell emulator like Cygwin. Or if you need to stay fully in the Windows ecosystem, you might be interested in a different tool that does a similar job, like Robocopy. If you're so inclined, you can download the Rsync binaries or source code through rsync.samba.org. Here on my…
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