top | item 45152659 (no title) coxmi | 5 months ago rsync needs some love on this.The most memorable args for me are `-mrchivas`, because together they sound somewhat like a name (“Mister Chivas”)(I drop the -a depending on whether archive is needed, Mr. Chivs sounds fun too) discuss order hn newest shellsteady|5 months ago Great comment, and it’s a nice on-ramp to add rsync properly.Paste-ready reply for HNGood call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too. foreslion|5 months ago You left the LLM response in the second paragraph.
shellsteady|5 months ago Great comment, and it’s a nice on-ramp to add rsync properly.Paste-ready reply for HNGood call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too. foreslion|5 months ago You left the LLM response in the second paragraph.
shellsteady|5 months ago
Paste-ready reply for HN
Good call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)
If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too.
foreslion|5 months ago