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rsync

rsync - A Remote Update Protocol

This is the first in what is going to be a (fingers crossed) long line of tutorials and tips and tricks that users of this site find and use throughout the course of their days. Anyway - lets get on with the rest of the story!

rsync is a Unix command-line based remote update protocol. Basically what this means is that it is an intelligent file transfer protocol - the intelligent part being that it allows the transfer of just the differences between two sets of files. Sounds technical... but it's not really that complicated and can be very useful. Here's a couple of potential use cases:

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