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Learn Rsync - Pre-Requisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before touching rsync, you need to master the Linux CLI basics, the concepts of file permission & owner, and SSH for remote sessions. In this episode you will also set up two directories or two hosts for practice, install rsync version 3.4.x, and verify that the entire environment is ready to use throughout the series.
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Learn Rsync - History, Background & Why You Need It
Tracing rsync's journey from a project written by Andrew Tridgell (creator of Samba) and Paul Mackerras in 1996 to becoming the de facto standard for backup & mirroring, and understanding the delta-transfer algorithm that makes it bandwidth-efficient and why version 3.4.x now matters from a security perspective.
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Learn Rsync - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
Dissecting how rsync works from an architectural standpoint: local vs remote mode, transfer paths over SSH as well as the rsyncd daemon on port 873, and its main components — the rsync binary, the rsyncd daemon, the /etc/rsyncd.conf configuration, and delta-transfer based on rolling checksum + hash.
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Learn Rsync - Basic Syntax & Local Mode
Mastering the basic rsync syntax [OPTIONS] SRC DEST and your first local-mode practice with rsync -avh, including the crucial trailing slash difference: src/ copies the directory contents while src copies the directory itself along with its contents.
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Learn Rsync - Remote Mode: SSH & Rsync Daemon
Mastering rsync's remote mode through two paths: SSH (default, encrypted, with a custom port via -e "ssh -p ...") and the rsync daemon with the rsync://host/module/ syntax, [module] configuration in /etc/rsyncd.conf, plus authentication through a secrets file.
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Learn Rsync - Essential Flags: -a, -v, -h, -z, -P, --delete
Dissecting the most frequently used flags in one episode: -a (archive), -v (verbose), -h (human-readable), -z (compression), -P (--partial and --progress), --delete for mirroring, and -n (dry-run) as a safeguard before execution.
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Learn Rsync - Include/Exclude & Filter Rules
Mastering the art of choosing which files go in and out of a backup with --exclude, --include, and --exclude-from, understanding the /dir/ vs dir/ patterns, and applying them to real cases: excluding .git, node_modules, cache, and temporary files.
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Learn Rsync - Batch Mode & Partial Transfer
Delving into two mechanisms for difficult scenarios: batch mode with --write-batch/--read-batch for applying the same delta to many hosts, and partial transfer with --partial/--partial-dir and --timeout to rescue transfers on unstable networks.
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Learn Rsync - Backup Strategy: Incremental & Full
Designing a proper backup strategy: understanding full vs incremental backups, why tar alone isn't enough, and the time-machine-style hardlink snapshot pattern with rsync -a --link-dest that produces space-efficient snapshots without duplicating data.
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Learn Rsync - Hardlink Snapshot & Backup Rotation
Automating the snapshot pattern from episode 8 into a daily/weekly/monthly rotation system with --link-dest, writing rotation and old-snapshot cleanup scripts, and applying the best practice of consistent --delete and --delete-excluded across snapshots.
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