rsync

rsync allows you to synchronize data between two filesystems or hosts. See http://rsync.samba.org/ for details. As part of our Standard UNIX Toolkit we install rsync 2.5.6 on our hosts.

Most commonly used in this syntax:

rsync -va -e ssh sourcefile host:/destination

Download rsync for your system

• FreeBSD: Run "pkg_add -r rsync"
• Gentoo Linux: Run "emerge rsync"
• Fedora Linux: Run "yum install rsync"
• IRIX 6.5: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/IRIX/6.5/packages/fw_rsync-2.5.6.tardist
• Mac OS X: built-in
• Mandrake Linux: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/Mandrake/packages/rsync-2.5.6-3mdk.i586.rpm
• Red Hat Linux 9: built-in (with updates)
• Solaris 2.6: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/Solaris/2.6/packages/
• Solaris 7: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/Solaris/7/packages/
• Solaris 8: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/Solaris/8/packages/
• Solaris 9: ftp://ftp.chem.indiana.edu/pub/Solaris/9/packages/
• SUSE Linux 9: built-in

NOTE Solaris users must also have popt installed