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Remote rsync - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
Remote rsync
- [Instructor] I've mentioned that Rsync can copy files between systems, and while a remote Rsync operation looks pretty much the same as a local operation when we're typing it out on the command line, we need to have some things in place to support remote transfers. Rsync offers two different strategies for connecting to and transferring data to or from a remote system. These are by allowing Rsync to make and accept remote connections itself and by using SSH or another remote shell to create a tunnel or connection and using that to transfer data. With either of these strategies, when we write our Rsync command, we'll make a small change to whichever argument represents the remote system to tell Rsync that it needs to use one of these different remote access modes for one of the hosts. The remote host can be either the source or the destination. We can either pull or push information with Rsync. But we can't have…
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