Questions tagged [rsync]
For questions about the rsync tool, which is a Unix utility for synchronizing files across computer systems.
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Will rsync copy extended attributes, ACLs, etc. reliably enough for Time Machine?
I am copying a TM backup to a new drive over USB by drag&drop per Apple’s recommendation. But since it is more than two terabytes, I am concerned about the risk of interruption.
If I try to ...
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rsync denied to access directory when run with launchctl
I have mounted samba share in "/Volumes/Samba" with full read/write access right to it.
I created simple script to rsync files from smb share to folder on my disk, when I lunch script from terminal ...
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Why is finder copy faster than Rsync for local volumes?
I routinely find that the finder is faster for local disk to disk copy operations than Rsync. For instance Rsync on a large directory (100gb with 14000 files) can take many times longer than the ...
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How To Keep 2 Folders In Sync Real-Time?
I would like to keep Keybase data folders backup up to my local computer with some kind of real-time file sync solution.
Every time Keybase is opened, any local files sync to Keybase associated ...
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System using old version of rSync instread of new version
I have a Mac computer and would like to send backups to a Synology NAS.
Apple has rSync 2.6.9 pre-loaded with the operating system.
I installed rSync 3.1.3 using HomeBrew as Synology Active Backup ...
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Why would running rsync cause the Date Modified value on a particular folder on the source volume to change?
I ran rsync last night to backup some of my drive. When I woke up, the source folder (which is sorted by Date Modified, descending) had a particular sub-folder at the top which I haven't touched in ...
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Rsync mishap .. OS hdd is now full
I attempted to use the command:
sudo rsync -vaE --progress /Volumes/1-mate /Volumes/Hired-Hand
.. to move the contents of one connected drive to another. This was going great until my boot drive ...
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update rsync in high sierra
I want to update rsync in high sierra.
After I installed it using homebrew, it is installed in
/usr/local/Cellar/rsync/3.1.3_1
rsync --version still shows 2.6.9. how can I fix that?
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How do I grant root access to user files in Mojave?
I upgraded my laptop to Mojave. For years, my backup strategy has included using rsync (MacPorts rsync 3.1.3) to copy files to a file server. This stopped working properly, now showing some errors ...
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How to repair, merge, or “update” (using rsync ?) partially downloaded/backed up duplicate icloud archives?
When I used icloud drive on my mac, and then disabled it, it moved all of my desktop files and documents to an archive. This happened multiple times. Now, I am no longer using this feature and I want ...
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Cannot load rsync daemon in Sierra. Log shows: “assertion failed: 16G1408: libxpc.dylib”
I'm trying to start rsync --daemon on Sierra (10.12.6), using launchctl. It used to work fine (last time in Mavericks, I think). But now on Sierra, the daemon does not start and grep rsync /var/log/...
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duplicate a folder/file structure using a placeholder file
I have a large library of digital media. Most of it is kept "offline" but the library software I use (Plex) uses media files to build the library and so I need to use placeholder files.
Using 30 ...
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Transferring data to a new external hard drive without breaking links
I'm trying to migrate my data from an old external hard drive to a new one. When I copy and paste from within Finder, the data seems to expand to take up much more space, so I'm assuming some link ...
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rsync -a not preserving file ownership or group
I'm rsyncing from a remote linux box to my local solid state hard drive on my mac running High Sierra. I'm using the -a switch (archive) which is supposed to preserve the ownership of the group but ...
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Using Rsync For Exact Copy
I've used rsync before, on Linux, many times, but also many years ago and I also don't know if there are any differences or issues between using it on an iMac and on Linux.
I have a drive with a ...
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User input in Automator's “Run Shell Script”
I have a Folder Action on a /Volumes folder. I'm checking when a specific disk is mounted (folder in /Volumes created), checking ssh to remote computer. If all present I run rsync there.
It was OK ...
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How to use rsync via ssh with IPv6 LLA (link local address) addresses on OSX?
I'm using OSX High Sierra and bash. I'm trying to use a backup script based on IPv6 LLA (so I always reach the server, without DHCP, names etc).
With IPv4 this works:
rsync -e ssh /src/dir/* user@...
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Rsync 3.1.2 and High Sierra sparse bundle problem
For over a year, I've been using rsync to add a layer of archiving to my systems. It has worked fine.
I recently upgraded the computers to High Sierra. My server contains a volume incorporating a ...
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Directory modification dates on FAT32 USB stick in OSX
I'm moving my files from Windows XP to OSX Sierra, and having trouble with rsync and directory modification dates.
For now, I have moved the files from XP to a FAT32 USB drive using XP, and when I ...
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Trying to copy archive from one network share to another while ignoring the tilde character
I've been trying to copy an archive volume from one network share to another. Because most of these files are Mac files, I am using Mac Terminal to do so. I've tried every combination of cp, rsync, ...
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I canceled (control+c) rsync transfer on a large file; will it be picked up if I start over?
I am coping a about 5TB of data from a Drobo attacked to a Mac Mini running macOS Sierra to a NAS (FreeNAS). Here's the command I am using:
sudo rsync -a --stats --progress "/Source" "/Destination"
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rsync is creating a folder called Archive under /Volumes instead of copying files to mounted share /Volumes/Archive
I am moving data from a Drobo 5D to a NAS (FreeNAS). I am using this command:
sudo rsync -a --stats --progress "/Volumes/Drobo 5D" "/Volumes/Archive"
Obviously, before I run the command, I mounted ...
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Safest rsync command options?
What are the safest commands to use with rsync to copy from one hard drive, all its content to a new hard drive, both external through my Mac.
The important thing is I want to be sure permissions ...
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rsync cron job for backup not working
I'm trying to run a backup from one HDD to another at 10pm everynight on a Mac Pro. I have tested the rsync and it backups just fine outside of the cron table. Here is what I have and it's not running ...
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rsync + chmod multiple files
I have a source folder
source/
-rw-------@ 1 user staff 41B Mar 23 13:59 aws-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 112B Mar 23 14:36 aws-2
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 user staff 2.3K Feb 5 17:15 google
the ...
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Terminal command that is the same as copy paste in Finder?
I'm curious. As far as cp and rsync I see all these different options. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you copy + paste in Finder, lets say from one hard drive to another, it should preserve:
All ...
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Error messages in rsync
When I run
rsync -avz --exclude-from=exc ~/ /Volumes/Backup/home/
I get the message
sending incremental file list
./
.DS_Store
...<snip>... (lots of files)....
End of list of files
sent 72,...
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Rsync re-copying all files
I use ParagonNTFS on my Mac that I can write to ntfs drives.
I have two very large NTFS drives that I try to keep in sync. I'd like to be able to do this quickly with rsync:
rsync -rvh --delete /...
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merge folder trees on OSX by moving, not copying them
It's backup time, and I've been trying to merge two big directory trees on the same (physical) partition, with lots levels of depth. The first one is the base containing all my projects up to 2014, ...
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Rsync to macOS Sierra fails
I have a directory in my Ubuntu computer with the following sub directories:
emacs.d/el-get/python-mode/
├── extensions
├── EXTENSIONS
├── INSTALL
├── INSTALL-INFO-FILES
├── ...
└── website
When I ...
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rsync and hard links
I set up a shell script to synchronize two directories, this is the code:
rsync -rptDH /source /destination
Source is a local directory and destination is a smb mounted NAS drive.
I added the -H ...
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Back up Mac using CarbonCopyCloner with command line only?
Background:
I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in ...
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Unexpected results from rsync
I am trying to use rsync for back up using this command:
rsync -vaE --progress --delete /source /destination
My goal is to have the destination be an exact copy of the source. I have updated rsync ...
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copyfile errors and dot files using rsync
I read @SwisherSweet's question of the fastest and safest way to copy massive data from one external drive to another, along with @GrahamMiln's excellent answer.
I'm in a similar situation where I ...
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Does rsync have issues with Unicode Characters in filenames? [duplicate]
I run rsync via a crontab every night to make an offsite backup of a directory's state, fairly trivial stuff really. While going through the logs, I noticed that in particular there were a set of ...
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Run a command on a schedule and verify that it has run
I want to run an rsync command each day or more often to back up a raspbery pi on my network to a drive attached to my mac. I see launchd, but I'm very confused about how to get it to work, and I ...
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Tool that watches files / folders and upload on change on OS X?
I am looking for an SFTP or rsync (?) tool (or script?) that watches a certain folder or certain files and uploads them to a remote server securely on change.
The background:
I've been using Sublime ...
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Using rsync to backup
I currently back up the contents of an external hard drive A by (1) deleting everything in the destination external hard drive B and (2) copying everything from A to B (in Finder). The external hard ...
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Rsync for backups
I have gotten into the habit of using rsync to do my own backups of an encrypted volume containing my personal info onto an external hard drive. I did not use Time Machine, because I do not own the ...
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Synchronise folders on different Macs using rsync
I am trying to synchronise two different folders using rsync. I have copied all the data worth 4Tb from a network share to an external hdd using rsync -v -r /source /destination. Now I need to run ...
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Rsync: run backups like Time Machine and prevent removing non existing remote files/dirs on local folder
I have this configuration: a NAS and a local hard drive on my Mac I want to backup incrementally, like Time Machine does.
When I do this rsync command:
rsync -va --exclude=.DS_Store --delete /...
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Rsyncd: unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873
I'm running OS X El Capitan.
I want to run rsync in daemon mode but I'm unable to do it. Here is the error from /var/log/system./log:
rsyncd[1329]: unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873
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Rsync error after a period of syncing (error in rsync protocol data stream)
I am trying to use a standard rsync via ssh between a local MacBook Pro and a remote Linux based machine (WD MyCloud). There is no problem initializing it, but after syncing for a while I always get ...
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Are there any up-to-date rsync frontends or similar for OSX?
For my work as a media professional I have been using the rsync frontend arrsync to back up my work, as time machine doesn't have the features I need. Arrsync, however, has not been in development for ...
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Preserving “hidden” attribute when copying from NTFS to HFS+?
I have an NTFS volume that I am copying into a new HFS+ volume. I'm using the following command to copy everything including all hidden directories and attributes:
sudo rsync -aAXvF --del --chmod=F-x,...
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Mac Encrypted USB drive giving different capacity
I have an existing 1T USB drive (disk5 in the screenshot). I formatted another 1T USB drive (disk4) and starts to rsync files from disk5 to disk4.
Near the end (the current state in the screenshot) ...
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How to keep original “date created” when copying via Terminal?
There are many questions online asking how to make the commands rsync and cp go about copying a file while keeping the "date created" attribute the same as the original instead of the time of copy. I ...
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Where is Rsync's default temp directory?
I'm using rsync to backup files to an external hard drive; my boot disk is pretty full. Rsync keeps failing due to not enough disk space to build the temporary file list, and unfortunately doesn't ...
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bug with rsync changing modification dates even with the -a option
I have been testing rsync and found a weird bug when copying files and folders from a partition to another:
If I do this:
rsync -avE --delete '/Volumes/disk1/origin/' '/Volumes/disk2/destination/'
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does rsync work differently from Mac to Mac-formatted hard drive v. with Linux
I'm trying to figure out if this rsync behavior I'm noticing is specific to copying from a Mac to a Mac-formatted hard drive v. with e.g. a Synology system.
Typically, I've been using rsync to copy ...
