From the course: System Administration: Backup and Recovery
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Rsync
From the course: System Administration: Backup and Recovery
Rsync
- [Instructor] Rsync is a popular backup program for Linux Operating Systems. It transfers and synchronizes files between a computer and an external drive, or across a network. And it makes it more efficient by comparing the modification dates and sizes of files and only backing up what's needed. You can also back up to local drives, as well. I'm going to go ahead and install Rsync and I can do that by typing in, apt, followed by install and then rsync. And it doesn't take too long. And when it's done, we'll be able to start using it. And the installation is complete. I'm going to clear the screen and I'm going to make a directory for Rsync backups. So I'll just call this rsyncbu, for backup and that will be the location that we use for our backups. And there you can see the rsyncbu folder. The simple usage of Rsync is just typing in rsync, followed by the source and then the destination. So the source is going to be…
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