About:
rsync is a replacement for rcp (and scp) that has many more features. It uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.

Author:
Martin Pool [contact developer]

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8.88/10.00 (31 votes)

Homepage:
http://rsync.samba.org/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/
Bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/[..]&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED
Mailing list archive:
http://rsync.samba.org/lists.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable, 6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX, POSIX :: AIX, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: IRIX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: Other, POSIX :: SCO, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet, System :: Archiving, System :: Archiving :: Mirroring, System :: Networking, System :: Software Distribution

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Old	2.4.8	25-Jan-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New rsync packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 13th 2008 15:17 Debian: New rsync packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:37 Red Hat: Updated rsync package fixes security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Sep 2nd 2004 02:34 Debian: New rsync packages fix unauthorised directory traversal and file access by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Aug 17th 2004 00:26 SuSE: New rsync packages fix remote system compromise by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Aug 16th 2004 07:56

Debian: New rsync packages fix directory traversal bug by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Jun 2nd 2004 12:19 Red Hat: Updated rsync package fixes security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, May 20th 2004 02:37 Debian: New rsync packages fix directory traversal bug by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, May 3rd 2004 00:03 Red Hat: New rsync packages fix remote security vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Dec 4th 2003 14:41 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] rsync user
by Richard Harris - Aug 28th 2005 15:08:19

I am the author of Walker, a Python script for uploading sites via ftp and scp. Walker is very good for maintaining sites of moderate size, for use over slow connections, for users with limited resources, and for users who need customized control over the upload.

For some time I maintained two and three sites using Walker. Now I am maintaining over ten sites and their related project files. I use rsync exclusively, called from python and ruby scripts which handle mirrored and standardized directory structures across the sites, in other word the sites and dev dirs are all to the same pattern. In this way, I am able to easily maintain HTML, data, and cgi-bin files and to back-up and restore the web sites and the project development files.

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[»] rsync as a library
by Martin Pool - Mar 8th 2001 20:34:44

See also rproxy.samba.org for information on librsync, which allows programs to call the rsync delta-encoding functions directly.

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