How to Synchronize a local directory with a remote directory using rsync in ubuntu

Most of the system administrators need to sync some of  their local folder to remote folder. You can do this with a simple command line utility rsync. This will synchronizes files and directories from one location to another , securely by using  delta encoding. It will synchronize files across the network by transferring only data that has changed.

Open a terminal

$sudo apt-get install rsync

$ rsync -r -a -v -e "ssh -l shibu" --delete 192.168.0.5:/var/www/ /home/shibu/public_hrml

$ rsync -r -a -v -e "ssh -l shibu" --delete ceattingal.ac.in:/webroot/ /local/webroot 

rsync command common options

• --delete : delete files that don't exist on sender
• -v : Verbose
• -z : compress file data
• -e "ssh options" : specify the ssh as remote shell
• -a : archive mode
• -r : recurse into directories