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Local rsync basics - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
Local rsync basics
- [Instructor] While Rsync is often used to synchronize data between two systems, it's also widely used locally, such as for one-off copy operations or ongoing backup jobs involving internal or external disks. I want to make a note here that when I say local file system, that could include a network share mounted into the local machine's file system via SMB, NFS, or similar. Even though those files actually live on a different machine accessed across the network, the local machine's file system treats them as though they are part of its local file system, and so does Rsync. And that can have performance implications that are important to keep in mind when we're working with Rsync and designing Rsync jobs. We'll come back to that in a little while. Let's take a look at using Rsync locally before we move on to using it remotely. Here I have my working files, including a directory containing a website for a fictional…
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