rsync – Page 2 – Tarik Billa

Python Subprocess.Popen from a thread

September 9, 2023 by Tarik

You didn’t supply any code for us to look at, but here’s a sample that does something similar to what you describe: import threading import subprocess class MyClass(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): self.stdout = None self.stderr = None threading.Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): p = subprocess.Popen(‘rsync -av /etc/passwd /tmp’.split(), shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) self.stdout, self.stderr = p.communicate() myclass = MyClass() … Read more

read input from a file and sync accordingly

September 8, 2023 by Tarik

There is more than one way to answer this question depending on how you want to copy these files. If your intent is to copy the file list with absolute paths, then it might look something like: rsync -av –files-from=/path/to/files.txt / /destination/path/ …This would expect the paths to be relative to the source location of … Read more

Run Rsync from Python [duplicate]

August 25, 2023 by Tarik

You can call a subprocess from python using the following snippet import subprocess subprocess.call([“ls”, “-l”]) In your case, it would be something like this subprocess.call([“rsync”, “-Ccavz”, “–delete”,”DJStatic”, “username@website”]) See here for more details.

Install rsync with cygwin [closed]

August 20, 2023 by Tarik

Run your cygwin setup.exe again, and expand the categories to find ‘rsync’ and ‘ssh’.

Rsync Encryption

August 12, 2023 by Tarik

If you use the rsync:// protocol scheme (i.e. when you connect to a rsyncd daemon) then no encryption will be used (although password authentication is done using a MD4-based challenge-response system and is probably still reasonably secure). If you use the hostname:/some/path scheme then rsync transparently calls SSH, which encrypts everything, and uses SSH’s native … Read more

How to force rsync to create destination folder

August 9, 2023 by Tarik

I ran into same issue today and found the solution here. You can either do: rsync -avR foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/ or: rsync -avR somedir/./foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/ to create /tmp/foo/bar/baz.c in the remote machine. see –relative/-R section of man rsync for more details.

How to recursively copy directories starting with “abc” on Linux/Unix?

August 1, 2023 by Tarik

Not sure why what you’re trying didn’t work (but what is the “copy” command?), but this works on Linux at least: cp -r ~/plugins/abc* ~/destination

compare contents of two directories on remote server using unix

July 29, 2023 by Tarik

You can use rsync with the -n flag to find out if the files are in sync, without actually doing a sync. For example, from server1: rsync -n -avrc /abc/home/sample1/* server2:/abc/home/sample2/ This will print the names of all files (recursive, with the -r flag) that differ between server1:/abc/home/sample1/ and server2:/abc/home/sample2/ rsync used parameters explanation -n, … Read more

Rsync how to include directories but not files?

July 28, 2023 by Tarik

rsync -a –include=”*/” –exclude=”*” source/ destination/ Basically, first include all directories, then exclude all files.

rsync delete files on sending side after transfer

July 10, 2023 by Tarik

You need to pass the –remove-source-files option to the rsync command. It tells rsync to remove from the sending side the files (meaning non-directories) that are a part of the transfer and have been successfully duplicated on the receiving side. Do not pass the –delete option to rsync command as it delete extraneous files from … Read more