rsync

I used to use Filezilla to upload things to my website. However, SFTP mode is kinda slow… I was put off using rsync for a while since it’s a scary CLI only tool but it’s SO MUCH FASTER.

Basics

The basics:

rsync SRC DEST

SRC and DEST can be a local file (./foo.txt) or SSH location (user@example.com).

Use -r to upload recursively. Use -P for progress. Use --exclude to ignore certain files; if you have enough exclusions then you can put them in a file and use --exclude-from instead.

Example:

rsync -r -P --exclude-from rsync-excludes.txt your/local/folder/ user@example.com:your/dest/folder/