Now, let's see how to use Grsync for syncing files using a GUI. Note that all the examples shown in the post are for copying files from the local computer to a remote server/computer. When its running as a daemon, you build an nf file, and run rsync with the -daemon argument. Lets say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB. When it comes to rsync, think of client and server as roles, that the same rsync binary can fulfill. Makes it easy to specify all the details (source, destination, options) we can check on the remote system and see that the dir1 directory has been synced on. In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program.
The copied files in the destination folder will not be deleted at any moment by rsync. These two machines could be virtual private servers, virtual machines, containers, or personal computers as long as they’ve been properly configured.
It doesn't need the gnome libraries to run, but can of course run under gnome, kde or unity pretty fine. Grsync makes use of the GTK libraries and is released under the GPL license, so it is opensource. We want to use rsync to copy files and, after a successful copy, we want those source files to be deleted. In order to practice using rsync to sync files between a local and remote system, you will need two machines to act as your local computer and your remote machine, respectively. Rsync is the well-known and powerful command line directory and file synchronization tool. If you need to create a regular backup, check our post Backup with rsync. However because it's very easy to get some detail wrong and spend a lot of time figuring out the issue I've come up with the script below that: In this post, we explain how to do this by using rsync. Over the years I've done this many times with more or less the same tricks as in every other answer here.