One Quickie

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Rsyncing a directory hierarchy from one machine to another (Unix->General)

I'm moving a bunch of movie files from one machine to another. I used this rsync command to copy it from the remote machine to the local one to the directory /Volumes/Media2

% rsync -avz -e ssh --progress 'biggun.local:/Volumes/Video/AppleTV\ Videos/Exercise' /Volumes/Media2

I can never remember what the flags mean, so:

• -a : archive mode (recursive, also preserve symlinks, permissions, owner and group)
• -v : verbose
• -z : compress for transport
• -e ssh : use ssh for the transport pipeline
• --progress : see progress info