OptionsOn rsync itself
-v--verbose
Increase verbosity
--info
Fine-grained informational verbosity <BACKUP> <COPY> <DEL> <FLIST> <MISC> <MOUNT> <NAME> <PROGRESS> <REMOVE> <SKIP> <STATS> <SYMSAFE> <ALL> <NONE> <HELP>
--debug
Fine-grained debug verbosity <BACKUP> <COPY> <DEL> <FLIST> <MISC> <MOUNT> <NAME> <PROGRESS> <REMOVE> <SKIP> <STATS> <SYMSAFE> <ALL> <NONE> <HELP>
--msgs2stderr
Special output handling for debugging
--quiet-q
Suppress non-error messages
--no-motd
Suppress daemon-mode MOTD (see manpage caveat)
--checksum-c
Skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
-a--archive
Archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
--no-OPTION
Turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
-r--recursive
Recurse into directories
-R--relative
Use relative path names
--no-implied-dirs
Don't send implied dirs with --relative
-b--backup
Make backups (see --suffix & --backup-dir)
--backup-dir
Make backups into hierarchy based in DIR <DIR>
--suffix
Set backup suffix (default ~ w/o --backup-dir) <SUFFIX>
-u--update
Skip files that are newer on the receiver
--inplace
Update destination files in-place (SEE MAN PAGE)
--append
Append data onto shorter files
--append-verify
Like --append, but with old data in file checksum
-d--dirs
Transfer directories without recursing <DIR>
-l--links
Copy symlinks as symlinks
-L--copy-links
Transform symlink into referent file/dir
--copy-unsafe-links
Only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed
--safe-links
Ignore symlinks that point outside the source tree
--munge-links
Munge symlinks to make them safer (but unusable)
-k--copy-dirlinks
Transform symlink to a dir into referent dir
-K--keep-dirlinks
Treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
-H--hard-links
Preserve hard links
-p--perms
Preserve permissions
-E--executability
Preserve the file's executability
--chmod
Affect file and/or directory permissions <CHMOD>
-A--acls
Preserve ACLs (implies --perms)
-X--xattrs
Preserve extended attributes
-o--owner
Preserve owner (super-user only)
--devices
Preserve device files (super-user only)
--copy-devices
Copy device contents as regular file
--specials
Preserve special files
-D
Same as --devices --specials
-t--times
Preserve modification times
-O--omit-dir-times
Omit directories from --times <DIR>
-J--omit-link-times
Omit symlinks from --times
--super
Receiver attempts super-user activities
--fake-super
Store/recover privileged attrs using xattrs
-S--sparse
Turn sequences of nulls into sparse blocks
--preallocate
Allocate dest files before writing them
-n--dry-run
Perform a trial run with no changes made
-W--whole-file
Copy files whole (without delta-xfer algorithm)
--checksum-choice
Choose the checksum algorithms <ALGORITHM>
-x--one-file-system
Don't cross filesystem boundaries
-B--block-size
Force a fixed checksum block-size <SIZE>
-e--rsh
Specify the remote shell to use <COMMAND>
--rsync-path
Specify the rsync to run on the remote machine <PATH>
--existing
Skip creating new files on receiver
--ignore-existing
Skip updating files that already exist on receiver
--remove-source-files
Sender removes synchronized files (non-dirs)
--delete
Delete extraneous files from destination dirs
--delete-before
Receiver deletes before transfer, not during
--delete-during--del
Receiver deletes during the transfer
--delete-delay
Find deletions during, delete after
--delete-after
Receiver deletes after transfer, not during
--delete-excluded
Also delete excluded files from destination dirs
--ignore-missing-args
Ignore missing source args without error
--delete-missing-args
Delete missing source args from destination
--ignore-errors
Delete even if there are I/O errors
--force
Force deletion of directories even if not empty
--max-delete
Don't delete more than NUM files <NUM>
--max-size
Don't transfer any file larger than SIZE <SIZE>
--min-size
Don't transfer any file smaller than SIZE <SIZE>
--partial
Keep partially transferred files
--partial-dir=DIR
Put a partially transferred file into DIR <DIR>
--delay-updates
Put all updated files into place at transfer's end
-m--prune-empty-dirs
Prune empty directory chains from the file-list
--numeric-ids
Don't map uid/gid values by user/group name
--usermap
Custom username mapping <STRING>
--groupmap
Custom groupname mapping <STRING>
--chown=USER:GROUP
Simple username/groupname mapping <USER:GROUP>
--timeout
Set I/O timeout in seconds <SECONDS>
--contimeout
Set daemon connection timeout in seconds <SECONDS>
-I--ignore-times
Don't skip files that match in size and mod-time
-M
Send OPTION to the remote side only <OPTION>
--remote-option
Send OPTION to the remote side only <OPTION>
--size-only
Skip files that match in size
-@
Set the accuracy for mod-time comparisons <NUM>
--modify-window
Set the accuracy for mod-time comparisons <NUM>
-T
Create temporary files in directory DIR <DIR>
--temp-dir
Create temporary files in directory DIR <DIR>
-y--fuzzy
Find similar file for basis if no dest file
--compare-dest
Also compare destination files relative to DIR <DIR>
--copy-dest
Also compare destination files relative to DIR and include copies of unchanged files <DIR>
--link-dest
Hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged <DIR>
-z--compress
Compress file data during the transfer
--compress-level
Explicitly set compression level <NUM>
--skip-compress
Skip compressing files with a suffix in LIST <LIST>
-C--cvs-exclude
Auto-ignore files the same way CVS does
-f
Add a file-filtering RULE <RULE>
--filter
Add a file-filtering RULE <RULE>
-F
Same as --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter' <DIR>
--exclude
Exclude files matching PATTERN <PATTERN>
--exclude-from
Read exclude patterns from FILE <FILE>
--include
Don't exclude files matching PATTERN <PATTERN>
--include-from
Read include patterns from FILE <FILE>
--files-from
Read list of source-file names from FILE <FILE>
-0--from0
All *-from/filter files are delimited by 0s
-s--protect-args
No space-splitting; only wildcard special-chars
--address
Bind address for outgoing socket to daemon <ADDRESS>
--port
Specify double-colon alternate port number <PORT>
--sockopts
Specify custom TCP options <OPTIONS>
--blocking-io
Use blocking I/O for the remote shell
--stats
Give some file-transfer stats
-8--8-bit-output
Leave high-bit chars unescaped in output
-h--human-readable
Output numbers in a human-readable format
--progress
Show progress during transfer
-P
Same as --partial --progress
-i--itemize-changes
Output a change-summary for all updates
--out-format
Output updates using the specified FORMAT <FORMAT>
--log-file
Log what we're doing to the specified FILE <FILE>
--log-file-format
Log updates using the specified FMT <FMT>
--password-file
Read daemon-access password from FILE <FILE>
--list-only
List the files instead of copying them
--bwlimit
Limit socket I/O bandwidth <RATE>
--stop-at
Stop rsync at year-month-dayThour:minute <y-m-dTh:m>
--time-limit
Stop rsync after MINS minutes have elapsed <MINS>
--outbuf
Set output buffering to None, Line, or Block <BUFFER>
--write-batch
Write a batched update to FILE <FILE>
--only-write-batch
Like --write-batch but w/o updating destination <FILE>
--read-batch
Read a batched update from FILE <FILE>
--protocol
Force an older protocol version to be used <NUM>
--iconv
Request charset conversion of filenames <CONVERT_SPEC>
--checksum-seed
Set block/file checksum seed (advanced) <NUM>
--noatime
Do not alter atime when opening source files
--version
Print version number
-h--help
Show help for rsync (-h is --help only if used alone)
