rsync is a Based File Sync Program (& if you don't use it, you're wrong.)

If you want to copy files, make backups, transfer massive files, update your website, update files smartly minimizing bandwidth, rsync is basically the best. It's a command line tool for file transfer and is easily scriptable. I use it actually all the time for moving stuff on or off my local computer.

rsync makes keeping your website up to date mega-easy. To setup a website, see this based playlist:
Links to a registrar (Epik) and server provider (Vultr) below:

OR affiliate links to things l use:

[lethaltty]

My brain: "You've been using rsync for years, you already know this"
Also my brain: "Yes, but I want to hear Luke tell me about it"

[augustintacquet]

This new Pajeet sound effect is really cool !

[simonedeiana]

rsync to move stuff around my network
1990s toyota pickup to move stuff around my property
walking to move myself around wood trails

[HolyMarmot]

I use rsync a lot, because it's when the transfer happens, it's important to inherit the permissions and attributes.

[_foldr]

How long until we have a node.js version of the coreutils? Will it be named soyutils?

[AndyMcClements]

rsync ?? That's proper old-skool, I used that in my early days as a sysadmin in the mid-late '90's. Good to know some folks are still appreciating the simplicity and goodness of stuff that predates the horror of the modern Linux world.

[phineasg]

Boomer switches to pajeet mic after 11 minutes of ranting.

[joselaw]

10:27 my voice
10:30 my wife's voice

[AdmVrln]

Thanks for the video. I think many people don't understand the problems with man pages is the sheer depth of data in them. My one feedback to anyone teaching command line stuff to the masses is do what you did here, show the command with actual use cases and explain them. In so many cases, the man pages will tell a user how to do 10, 000 things, but the average usage cases are really a smaller subset which many people would find very useful if they could get the narrowed down + examples. Once they understand the examples, its then much easier to absorb the additional options in the man pages.

[jonathanwarner]

A really useful feature is that rsync does not mirror by default, i.e. unless you set the --delete switch, it does not delete files at the destination that have been deleted at source. This is useful for a safety backup, so if someone accidentally deletes a file, the file is always guaranteed to still be in the backup. Of course this does not apply to files that have been changed. This feature can have other potential uses too. Another really useful feature is being able to skip directories such as the many application specific directories.

The thing that's cool about your stuff is that this is a way to create your own entire systems. These days we all use simple things like gmail, office, onedrive/dropbox, externally managed calendars. But your videos inspire me to build my own appliances.
All the privacy and control, and thanks to your video's easy to pick up. Thank you! 😊

(Except, I will need to spend more for my own 2x1TB raid 1 cloud storage application.)

[GeorgijTovarsen]

I need a java implementation of soygrep so bad

[chbrules]

Been using rsync as long as I've been Linuxing. It's delta check and compression in transit makes it optimal for all sorts of file transfer tasks - especially backup jobs.

[antidote]

Rsync by default uploads only the files which have been changed. Your explanation about "-u" option needs to be corrected. "-u" option allows you to preserve files in destination which have newer modification time.

[philippebeaureilles]

I use rsync as a replacement of robocopy since I switched to Linux. Thanks for the video.

[MAmerica]

Rsync is awesome. And its creator is also really awesome. He works on open source drone technology now. His name is Andrew Tridgell. Really cool guy.

[aequanimus]

I use rsync at work hundreds of times a day. A great little program.

[Thomas-vdez]

Hi. After hearing you comment about the size of your video file, I was wondering if you could talk a bit about how you choose and store your video encodings for your channel and maybe for your family home videos.

[lachlana]

Great to see you finally covering rsync. Its an awesome tool that everyone should use

[mke]

rsync has been a lifesaver for me many times.