How to Transfer Files with Rsync over SSH

onebuck · 08-23-2019, 11:21 AM

Hi,

If you need to transfer files, directory or data over the network then;

How to Transfer Files with Rsync over SSH

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When it comes to transferring files between systems on the network, Linux and Unix users have a lot of tools at their disposal.
The most popular protocols for data transfer are SSH and FTP. While FTP is very popular, always prefer using SSH as it is the most secure way to transfer your files.
There are specialized tools for file transfer over SSH such as scp and sftp but none of them has all the features that rsync provides. rsync can be used for mirroring data, incremental backups, copying files between systems and so on.
In this tutorial, we will explain how to copy files with rsync over SSH.

Very useful information!
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy Linux!

Skaperen · 08-23-2019, 09:18 PM

what if you are doing this to make a backup of your system files from your laptop or home computer to a remote server and you can access root only with sudo (direct root login is disabled for security)? let's see if you can explain how to do that. the linked article didn't.

permaroot · 08-23-2019, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Skaperen

what if you are doing this to make a backup of your system files from your laptop or home computer to a remote server and you can access root only with sudo (direct root login is disabled for security)? let's see if you can explain how to do that. the linked article didn't.

Put sudo in front of the rsync command

onebuck · 08-23-2019, 10:45 PM

Hi,

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Originally Posted by Skaperen

what if you are doing this to make a backup of your system files from your laptop or home computer to a remote server and you can access root only with sudo (direct root login is disabled for security)? let's see if you can explain how to do that. the linked article didn't.

You must have missed this in the article;

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The user running the rsync command and the remote SSH user must have appropriate permissions to read and write files.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

Turbocapitalist · 08-23-2019, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Skaperen

what if you are doing this to make a backup of your system files from your laptop or home computer to a remote server and you can access root only with sudo (direct root login is disabled for security)? let's see if you can explain how to do that. the linked article didn't.

You'd have to use an option to set --rsync-path="sudo rsync" on the end which initiates the connection. Then on the remote end you need to lock down /etc/sudoers appropriately. Not hard, just detailed.