From the course: Learning Rsync
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What you should know - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
What you should know
- [Instructor] Rsync is primarily used on Linux systems, and it's often used across a network. So I have two Linux systems here, the one I'm using directly and a remote server. My remote system is acting as an SSH server, and later, well configure it to act as an rsync server as well. We'll be working at the command line, so I expect that you're familiar using Bash or Z shell or a similar shell and with installing software on your system. You should be able to follow along with this course on any Linux distro, any BSD in macOS, or in Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Rsync is not available as a native windows tool. In this course, we'll be transferring files around, and in order to be better able to see what's going on, we'll need one or more large files. You could download a Linux ISO or two, or you can generate some big files yourself with a command like this. This one in particular will generate a one gigabyte…
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