rsync Reviews, Features, and Download links

rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion.

In daemon mode, rsync listens on the default TCP port of 873, serving files in the native rsync protocol or via a remote shell such as RSH or SSH. In the latter case, the rsync client executable must be installed on both the local and the remote host.

License

Free

Supported Platforms 2 notes on rsync's platform support

Linux BSD Cygwin Haiku

Platform comments

Linux “Provided by distribution”
BSD “Provided by distribution”

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rsync was added by TheLoneCabbage in Nov 2009 and the lastest update was made in Jan 2020. There is a history of all activites on rsync in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on rsync or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.