An article about [setting up Ghost blogging](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-host-ghost-with-nginx-on-digitalocean) says to use `scp` to copy from my local machine to a remote server:

    scp -r ghost-0.3 root@*your-server-ip*:~/

However, [Railscast 339: Chef Solo Basics](http://railscasts.com/episodes/339-chef-solo-basics?view=asciicast) uses `scp` to copy in the opposite direction (from the remote server to the local machine):

    scp -r root@178.xxx.xxx.xxx:/var/chef .

In the same Railscast, when the author wants to copy files to the remote server (same direction as the first example), he uses `rsync`:

    rsync -r . root@178.xxx.xxx.xxx:/var/chef

Why use the `rsync` command if `scp` will copy in both directions? How does `scp` differ from `rsync`?

How does `scp` differ from `rsync`?

I want to download a large amount of data from a remote machine.
I&#39;d like the data to be erased on the remote machine everytime a file finishes downloading.

How do I do that? Is there a flag for rsync to do this?

rsync delete files on sending side after transfer

I&#39;m trying to use `rsync` on Windows 7. I installed cwRsync and tried to connect to Ubuntu 9.04.

    $ rsync -azC --force --more-options ./ user@server:/my/path/
    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] 
    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.5]
    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(610) [sender=3.0.8]


Why is this rsync connection unexpectedly closed on Windows?

I&#39;m trying to push changes to my server through ssh on windows (cygwin) using `rsync`.
The command I am using is:

&gt;rsync -rvz -e ssh /cygdrive/c/myfolder/ rsyncuser@192.168.1.110:/srv/www/prj112/myfolder/

`/srv/www/prj112/myfolder/` is owned by `rsyncuser`. My problem is that eventhough with `rsync` the sub directories are create as they publish, each directory is assigned default permission of `d---------` so `rsync` fails to copy any files inside it.

How do I fix this?

Rsync on Windows: wrong permissions for created directories

I&#39;m getting a confusing error from rsync and the initial things I&#39;m finding from web searches (as well as all the usual chmod&#39;ing) are not solving it:

    rsync: failed to set times on &quot;/foo/bar&quot;: Operation not permitted (1)
    rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) 
      at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/main.c(992) [sender=2.6.9]

It seems to be working despite that error, but it would be nice to get rid of that.


rsync error: failed to set times on &quot;/foo/bar&quot;: Operation not permitted

I would like to `rsync` from local computer to server. On a directory that does not exist, and I want `rsync` to create that directory on the server first.

How can I do that?


How can I configure rsync to create target directory on remote server?

I&#39;m trying to synchronize two contents of folders with different name:

    rsync -av ~/foo user@remote.com:/var/www/bar

I&#39;d like to copy the content of `foo` into `bar` at remote host, but not the directory `foo` itself. I&#39;ve tried something like `foo/*`, but rsync doesn&#39;t support that.

rsync always creates 

    /var/www/bar/foo


Rsync copy directory contents but not directory itself

I have two machines, speed and mass. speed has a fast Internet connection and is running a crawler which downloads a lot of files to disk. mass has a lot of disk space. I want to move the files from speed to mass after they&#39;re done downloading. Ideally, I&#39;d just run:

    $ rsync --remove-source-files speed:/var/crawldir .

but I worry that rsync will unlink a source file that hasn&#39;t finished downloading yet. (I looked at the source code and I didn&#39;t see anything protecting against this.) Any suggestions?

keep rsync from removing unfinished source files

I use the following bash script to copy only files of certain extension(in this case *.sh), however it still copies over all the files.  what&#39;s wrong?
&lt;pre&gt;
from=$1
to=$2

rsync -zarv  --include=&quot;*.sh&quot; $from $to
&lt;/pre&gt;


rsync copy over only certain types of files using include option

I use scp shell command to copy huge folder of files.

But at some point of time I had to kill the running command (by Ctrl+C or kill).

To my understanding scp copied files sequentially, so there should be only one partially copied file.

**How can same scp command be resumed to not overwrite successfully copied files and to properly handle partially copied files?**

P.S. I know I can do this kind of stuff in rsync, but scp is faster for me for some reason and I use it instead.


How to resume scp with partially copied files?

What is the simplest way to remove a trailing slash from each parameter in the &#39;$@&#39; array, so that `rsync` copies  the directories by name?


    rsync -a --exclude=&#39;*~&#39; &quot;$@&quot; &quot;$dir&quot;



---
*The title has been changed for clarification. To understand the comments and answer about multiple trailing slashes see the edit history.*

What is the simplest way to remove a trailing slash from each parameter?

Rsync includes a nifty option `--cvs-exclude` to “ignore files in the same way CVS does”, but CVS has been obsolete for years. Is there any way to make it also exclude files which would be ignored by modern version control systems (Git, Mercurial, Subversion)?

For example, I have lots of Maven projects checked out from GitHub. Typically they include a `.gitignore` listing at least `target`, the default Maven build directory (which may be present at top level or in submodules). Since the contents of these directories are entirely disposable, and they can be far larger than source code, I would like to exclude them when using rsync for backups.

Of course I can explicitly `--exclude=target/` but that will accidentally suppress unrelated directories that just happen to be named `target` and are not supposed to be ignored.

And I could supply a complete list of absolute paths for all file names and patterns mentioned in any `.gitignore`, `.hgignore`, or `svn:ignore` property on my disk, but this would be a huge list that would have to be produced by some sort of script.

Since rsync has no built-in support for VCS checkouts other than CVS, is there any good trick for feeding it their ignore patterns? Or some kind of callback system whereby a user script can be asked whether a given file/directory should be included or not?

_Update_: `--filter=&#39;:- .gitignore&#39;` as suggested by LordJavac seems to work as well for Git as `--filter=:C` does for CVS, at least on the examples I have found, though it is unclear if the syntax is an exact match. `--filter=&#39;:- .hgignore&#39;` does not work very well for Mercurial; e.g. an `.hgignore` containing a line like `^target$` (the Mercurial equivalent of Git `/target/`) is not recognized by rsync as a regular expression. And nothing seems to work for Subversion, for which you would have to parse `.svn/dir-prop-base` for a 1.6 or earlier working copy, and throw up your hands in dismay for a 1.7 or later working copy.

rsync exclude according to .gitignore &amp; .hgignore &amp; svn:ignore like --filter=:C

I&#39;m trying to understand what the difference is between two options 

    rsync --size-only
and

    rsync --ignore-times
It is my understanding that by default rsync will compare both the timestamps and the file sizes in order to decide whether or not a file should be synchronized or not. The options above allow the user to influence this behavior.

Both options seem, at least verbally to result in the same thing: **comparing by size only**.

Am I missing something subtle here?


rsync: difference between --size-only and --ignore-times

I&#39;m using `rsync` to make a backup of my server files, and I have two questions:

1. In the middle of the process I need to stop and start `rsync` again.  
  Will `rsync` start from the point where it stopped or it will restart from the beginning?

2. In the log files I see `&quot;f+++++++++&quot;`. What does it mean?

e.g.:

    2010/12/21 08:28:37 [4537] &gt;f.st...... iddd/logs/website-production-access_log
    2010/12/21 08:29:11 [4537] &gt;f.st...... iddd/web/website/production/shared/log/production.log
    2010/12/21 08:29:14 [4537] .d..t...... iddd/web/website/production/shared/sessions/
    2010/12/21 08:29:14 [4537] &gt;f+++++++++ iddd/web/website/production/shared/sessions/ruby_sess.017a771cc19b18cd
    2010/12/21 08:29:14 [4537] &gt;f+++++++++ iddd/web/website/production/shared/sessions/ruby_sess.01eade9d317ca79a


What does f+++++++++ mean in rsync logs?

&lt;h3&gt;How do you use an identity file with rsync?&lt;/h3&gt;
This is the syntax I *think* I should be using with rsync to use an identity file to connect:

&lt;pre&gt;
rsync -avz -e &#39;ssh -p1234  -i ~/.ssh/1234-identity&#39;  \
&quot;/local/dir/&quot; remoteUser@22.33.44.55:&quot;/remote/dir/&quot;
&lt;/pre&gt;

But it&#39;s giving me an error:

&lt;pre&gt;
Warning: Identity file ~/.ssh/1234-identity not accessible: No such file or directory.
&lt;/pre&gt;

The file is fine, permissions are set correctly, it works when doing ssh - just not with rsync - at least in my syntax. What am I doing wrong? Is it trying to look for the identity file on the remote machine? If so, how do I specify that I want to use an identity file on my *local* machine?

How do you use an identity file with rsync?

I need to do `rsync` by `ssh` and want to do it automatically without the need of passing password for `ssh` manually.

How to pass password automatically for rsync SSH command?

I&#39;ve about 50 or so files in various sub-directories that I&#39;d like to push to a remote server.  I figured rsync would be able to do this for me using the --include-from option. Without the --exclude=&quot;*&quot; option, all the files in the directory are being synced, with the option, no files are.

    rsync -avP -e ssh --include-from=deploy/rsync_include.txt --exclude=* ./ root@0.0.0.0:/var/www/ --dry-run

I&#39;m running it as dry initially and 0.0.0.0 is obviously replaced by the IP of the remote server. The contents of rsync_include.txt is a new line separated list of relative paths to the files I want to upload.

Is there a better way of doing this that is escaping me on a Monday morning?

How to rsync only a specific list of files?

Currently i only RSync-ing the `Directories` as like:

    * * * * * rsync -avz /var/www/public_html/images root@&lt;remote-ip&gt;:/var/www/public_html

So how do i `rsync` one single file like, `/var/www/public_html/.htaccess` ?

How to RSYNC a single file?

I have a folder a/ and a remote folder A/.
I now run something like this on a Makefile:

    get-music:
     rsync -avzru server:/media/10001/music/ /media/Incoming/music/
    
    put-music:
     rsync -avzru /media/Incoming/music/ server:/media/10001/music/
    
    sync-music: get-music put-music

when I make sync-music, it first gets all the diffs from server to local and then the opposite, sending all the diffs from local to server.

This works very well only if there are just updates or new files on the future. If there are deletions, it doesn&#39;t do anything.

In rsync there is --delete and --delete-after options to help accomplish what I want but thing is, it doesn&#39;t work on a 2-way-sync.

If I want to delete server files on a syn, when local files have been deleted, it works, but if, for some reason (explained after) I have some files that aren&#39;t in the server but exist locally and they were deleted, I want locally to remove them and not server copied (as it happens).

Thing is I have 3 machines in context:

 1. desktop
 2. notebook
 3. home-server

So, sometimes, server will have files that were deleted with a notebook sync, for example and then, when I run a sync with my desktop (where the deleted server files still exist on) I want these files to be deleted and not to be copied again to the server.

I guess this is only possible with a database and track of operations :P

Any simpler solutions?
Thank you.

Two way sync with rsync

I want to use Vagrant to provide a common development environment to my team. The hosts are completely different:

- Some use OS X, some Linux, and some Windows.
- Some use VMware, some use VirtualBox.

Inside of the VM we want to run Linux.

So far, everything is fine.

Now our idea was that each developer shall be able use the IDE of their choice, and hence we have introduced a synced folder that shares the source code between the host and the VM. This basically, works as well … except for symbolic links.

Inside of our source code we actually do have a few symbolic links, which is not a problem within the Linux inside the VM, but on Windows as host this causes problems. The only thing that we can *not* do is get rid of the symbolic links, so we need another way to deal with this.

So far, we have tried a number of options:

- There is a workaround mentioned in an [issue](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/713#issuecomment-4416384) of Vagrant, unfortunately this is VirtualBox-only and does not help those who run VMware. So far, we haven&#39;t found a way of running code in the *Vagrantfile* depending on the provider used.
- Instead of using a standard shared folder we now have tried using the [rsync](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/rsync.html) type. This works on Windows, but crashes on OS X with a number of errors telling us that the `symlink has no referent` (one error per symbolic link).
- We thought about [NFS](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/nfs.html), but that only works if you do not use Windows as host.
- We also though about [SMB](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/smb.html), but this again only works on Windows as host.

I can not imagine that we are the only or the first persons on this planet to experience problems with multi-platform hosts and symbolic links within the shared folder.

How can you solve this issue, so that we can keep symbolic links, but still use different host operating systems?

Symbolic links and synced folders in Vagrant

I want to use rsync to **synchronize** two directories in both directions.

I refer to synchronization in classical sense
(**not** how it is meant in rsync manuals):  
I want to update the directories **in both directions**,
depending on which of them is **newer**.

Can this be done by rsync *(preferable in a Linux-way)*?  
If not, what other solutions exist?

How do I synchronize in both directions?

The following command is working as expected...

    cp -ur /home/abc/* /mnt/windowsabc/

Does rsync has any advantage over it? Is there a better way to keep to backup folder in sync every 24 hours?



Copy or rsync command

We need to transfer `15TB` of data from one server to another as fast as we can. We&#39;re currently using `rsync` but we&#39;re only getting speeds of around `150Mb/s`, when our network is capable of `900+Mb/s` (tested with `iperf`). I&#39;ve done tests of the disks, network, etc and figured it&#39;s just that rsync is only transferring one file at a time which is causing the slowdown.

I found a script to run a different rsync for each folder in a directory tree (allowing you to limit to x number), but I can&#39;t get it working, it still just runs one rsync at a time.

I found the `script` [here][1] (copied below).

Our directory tree is like this:

    /main
       - /files
          - /1
             - 343
                - 123.wav
                - 76.wav
             - 772
                - 122.wav
             - 55
                - 555.wav
                - 324.wav
                - 1209.wav
             - 43
                - 999.wav
                - 111.wav
                - 222.wav
          - /2
             - 346
                - 9993.wav
             - 4242
                - 827.wav
          - /3
             - 2545
                - 76.wav
                - 199.wav
                - 183.wav
             - 23
                - 33.wav
                - 876.wav
             - 4256
                - 998.wav
                - 1665.wav
                - 332.wav
                - 112.wav
                - 5584.wav

So what I&#39;d like to happen is to create an rsync for each of the directories in /main/files, up to a maximum of, say, 5 at a time. So in this case, 3 rsyncs would run, for `/main/files/1`, `/main/files/2` and `/main/files/3`.

I tried with it like this, but it just runs 1 rsync at a time for the `/main/files/2` folder:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    # Define source, target, maxdepth and cd to source
    source=&quot;/main/files&quot;
    target=&quot;/main/filesTest&quot;
    depth=1
    cd &quot;${source}&quot;
    
    # Set the maximum number of concurrent rsync threads
    maxthreads=5
    # How long to wait before checking the number of rsync threads again
    sleeptime=5
    
    # Find all folders in the source directory within the maxdepth level
    find . -maxdepth ${depth} -type d | while read dir
    do
    	# Make sure to ignore the parent folder
    	if [ `echo &quot;${dir}&quot; | awk -F&#39;/&#39; &#39;{print NF}&#39;` -gt ${depth} ]
    	then
    		# Strip leading dot slash
    		subfolder=$(echo &quot;${dir}&quot; | sed &#39;s@^\./@@g&#39;)
    		if [ ! -d &quot;${target}/${subfolder}&quot; ]
    		then
    			# Create destination folder and set ownership and permissions to match source
    			mkdir -p &quot;${target}/${subfolder}&quot;
    			chown --reference=&quot;${source}/${subfolder}&quot; &quot;${target}/${subfolder}&quot;
    			chmod --reference=&quot;${source}/${subfolder}&quot; &quot;${target}/${subfolder}&quot;
    		fi
    		# Make sure the number of rsync threads running is below the threshold
    		while [ `ps -ef | grep -c [r]sync` -gt ${maxthreads} ]
    		do
    			echo &quot;Sleeping ${sleeptime} seconds&quot;
    			sleep ${sleeptime}
    		done
    		# Run rsync in background for the current subfolder and move one to the next one
    		nohup rsync -a &quot;${source}/${subfolder}/&quot; &quot;${target}/${subfolder}/&quot; &lt;/dev/null &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;
    	fi
    done
    
    # Find all files above the maxdepth level and rsync them as well
    find . -maxdepth ${depth} -type f -print0 | rsync -a --files-from=- --from0 ./ &quot;${target}/&quot;


  [1]: http://www.krazyworks.com/making-rsync-faster/

Speed up rsync with Simultaneous/Concurrent File Transfers?

I am trying to rsync directory A of server1 with directory B of server2.

Sitting in the directory A of server1, I ran the following commands.

    rsync -av * server2::sharename/B

but the interesting thing is, it synchronizes all files and directories except .htaccess or any hidden file in the directory A. Any hidden files within subdirectories get synchronized.

I also tried the following command:

    rsync -av --include=&quot;.htaccess&quot; * server2::sharename/B

but the results are the same.

Any ideas why hidden files of A directory are not getting synchronized and how to fix it. I am running as root user.

thanks



rsync not synchronizing .htaccess file

I have been attempting the following command:  

    rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:2222/path

SSH is running on port 2222, but rsync still tries to use port 22 and then complains about not finding the path, cause of course it does not exist.  

I would like to know if it is possible to rsync to a remote host on a non-standard ssh port.

Is it possible to specify a different ssh port when using rsync?

I&#39;m having problems getting my `rsync` syntax right and I&#39;m wondering if my scenario can actually be handled with `rsync`. First, I&#39;ve confirmed that `rsync` is working just fine between my local host and my remote host. Doing a straight sync on a directory is successful. 

Here&#39;s what my filesystem looks like:

    uploads/
      1260000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg
      1270000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg
      1280000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg

What I want to do is run rsync only on files that begin with &quot;file_11_&quot; in the subdirectories and I want to be able to run just one rsync job to sync all of these files in the subdirectories. 

Here&#39;s the command that I&#39;m trying:

`rsync -nrv --include=&quot;**/file_11*.jpg&quot; --exclude=&quot;*&quot; /Storage/uploads/ /website/uploads/`

This results in `0` files being marked for transfer in my dry run. I&#39;ve tried various other combinations of `--include` and `--exclude` statements, but either continued to get no results or got everything as if no include or exclude options were set. 

Anyone have any idea how to do this? 

Using Rsync include and exclude options to include directory and file by pattern

I&#39;ve used Vagrant for a while on a windows 7 system. Now I&#39;ve a new PC with windows 10. I installed Oracle Virtual Box and Vagrant and I try to start a machine with the command vagrant up.
The Vagrantfile is the same file that I used on my windows 7 system.
This is the content of the Vagrantfile:

    Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
    config.vm.box = &quot;debian/jessie64&quot;

    config.vm.provider &quot;virtualbox&quot; do |v|
        v.customize [&quot;modifyvm&quot;, :id, &quot;--memory&quot;, &quot;768&quot;]
    end
    config.vm.provision :shell, path: &quot;bootstrap.sh&quot;

    config.vm.network :private_network, ip: &quot;172.27.146.17&quot;
    config.vm.hostname = &quot;www.delevensstijl.hst1.nl&quot;
    config.hostsupdater.aliases = [&quot;www.thelifestylemethod.hst1.nl&quot;]

    end

[![this is the error i get][1]][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/uDah3.gif

The error I get: &quot;rsync&quot; could not be found on your PATH. Make sure that rsync is properly installed on your system and available on the PATH.

Why is Vagrant looking for rsync since I use Virtualbox?
How can I workaround this error?

Vagrant with VirtualBox on Windows10: &quot;Rsync&quot; could not be found on your PATH

Once I&#39;ve ssh&#39;d into my remote server, what would the command be to copy all files from a directory to a local directory on my machine?


Copying files using rsync from remote server to local machine

I have an EC2 instance running and I am able to SSH into it. 

However, when I try to rsync, it gives me the error Permission denied (publickey). 

The command I&#39;m using is: 

    rsync -avL --progress -e ssh -i ~/mykeypair.pem ~/Sites/my_site/* root@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/

I also tried

    rsync -avz ~/Sites/mysite/* -e &quot;ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub&quot; root@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/



Thanks,


Rsync to Amazon Ec2 Instance

I have the following setup to periodically rsync files from server A to server B. Server B has the rsync daemon running with the following configuration:

    read only = false
    use chroot = false
    max connections = 4
    syslog facility = local5
    log file = /var/adm/rsyncd.log
    munge symlinks = false
    secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
    numeric ids = false
    transfer logging = true
    log format = %h %o %f %l %b
    
    
    [BACKUP]
            path = /path/to/archive
            auth users = someuser


From server A I am issuing the following command:

    rsync -adzPvO --delete --password-file=/path/to/pwd/file/pwd.dat /dir/to/be/backedup/ someuser@192.168.100.100::BACKUP

BACKUP directory is fully read/write/execute to everyone. When I run the rsync command from server A, I see:

    afile.txt
             989 100%    2.60kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#78, to-check=0/79)

for each and everyfile in the directory I wish to backup. It fails when I get to writing tmp files:

    rsync: mkstemp &quot;/.afile.txt.PZQvTe&quot; (in BACKUP) failed: Permission denied (13)

Hours of googling later and I still can&#39;t resolve what seems to be a very simple permission issue. Advice? Thanks in advance.

**Additional Information**

I just noticed the following occurs at the beginning of the process:

    rsync: failed to set permissions on &quot;/.&quot; (in BACKUP): Permission denied (13)

Is it trying to set permission on &quot;/&quot;?

**Edit**

I am logged in as the user - someuser. My destination directory has full read/write/execute permission for everyone, including it&#39;s contents. In addition, the destination directory is owned by someuser and in someuser&#39;s group.

**Follow up**

I&#39;ve found using SSH solves this

rsync - mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

I need to copy all `*.jar` files from a directory maintaining the folder structure of the parent directories. How can I do it in UNIX/Linux terminal?  
The command `cp -r *.jar /destination_dir` is not what I am looking for.

Recursive copy of a specific file type maintaining the file structure in Unix/Linux?

I&#39;m looking for an `rsync`-like program which will create any missing parent directories on the remote side.

For example, if I have `/top/a/b/c/d` on one server and only `/top/a` exists on the remote server, I want to copy `d` to the remote server and have the `b` and `c` directories created as well.

The command:

    rsync /top/a/b/c/d remote:/top/a/b/c

won&#39;t work because `/tmp/a/b` doesn&#39;t exist on the remote server. And if it did exist then the file `d` would get copied to the path `/top/a/b/c`.

This is possible to do with `rsync` using `--include` and `--exclude` switches, but it is very involved, e.g.:

    rsync -v -r a dest:dir  \
      --include &#39;a/b&#39;       \
      --include &#39;a/b/c&#39;     \
      --include &#39;a/b/c/d&#39;   \
      --include &#39;a/b/c/d/e&#39; \
      --exclude &#39;a/*&#39;       \
      --exclude &#39;a/b/*&#39;     \
      --exclude &#39;a/b/c/*&#39;   \
      --exclude &#39;a/b/c/d/*&#39; 

will only copy `a/b/c/d/e` to `dest:dir/a/b/c/d/e` even if the intermediate directories have files. (Note - the includes must precede the excludes.)

Are there any other options?


rsync - create all missing parent directories?

For the past few years, I have been using an rsync one-liner to back up important folders on my Mac Mini desktop (OSX 10.9, 2.5 GHz i5, 4 GB RAM) to a FreeNAS box (0.7.2 Sabanda revision 5266, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, 822MiB RAM [reported by the system, I think there&#39;s 1 GB in there]). I am running an rsync daemon on the FreeNAS box. Recently, these transfers have been hanging indefinitely. I have done the usual Google-fu and am unable to identify the source of the problem or a solution.

The one-liner is:
```bash
rsync -rvOlt --exclude &#39;.DS_Store&#39;                                  \
      --exclude &#39;.com.apple.timemachine.supported&#39;                  \
      --delete /Volumes/Storage/Music/Albums/ 192.168.1.100::albums
```
I have tried enabling `-vvv` and `--progress`, but there is no pattern that I can discern between what hangs and what doesn&#39;t. Heck, if I retry, the same file might hang at a different point during the transfer or not at all. A dry run (`-n`) does not always succeed either. The only &quot;success&quot; I&#39;ve had is implementing a timeout (`--timeout=10`) and rerunning the command over and over. Eventually, I creep along, but with no guarantee of success and at a pace that is unacceptable. I&#39;ve reached a point where I have one file that I can&#39;t get past.

The Mac Mini is connected to my router via 5 GHz. The FreeNAS box is wired into that same router on a 100 mbit port. When transfers are actually going, `rsync --progress` reports 2.5-4 MB/s. According to `--progress`, a hang is literally just that—no data transfer is occurring as far as I can tell.

I need help with both the diagnostics and the solution.

rsync suddenly hanging indefinitely during transfers

I am trying to do something along the same lines as what is asked in this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1602324/rsync-how-do-i-synchronize-in-both-directions

However, what I can&#39;t figure out is whether or not I should add slashes to the end of the file path. Basically I&#39;m trying to create an alias command that syncs the contents of two directories that go by the same name but are on two different servers. What I don&#39;t want is for one directory to be copied into the other (which I am aware is a possibility depending on how the slashes at the end are done).

What I have currently is:

    alias syncDirectories1 = &#39;rsync -tvur name@host:/Users/me/directory/ /Users/me/directory/&#39;
    alias syncDirectories2 = &#39;rsync -tvur /Users/me/directory/ name@host:/Users/me/directory/&#39;

For what I am trying to accomplish, should there be slashes at the end of both file paths?

Thank you in advance for the help.



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