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How to RSYNC a single file?

Currently i only RSync-ing the Directories as like:

* * * * * rsync -avz /var/www/public_html/images root@<remote-ip>:/var/www/public_html

So how do i rsync one single file like, /var/www/public_html/.htaccess ?

Solution

  • You do it the same way as you would a directory, but you specify the full path to the filename as the source. In your example:

    rsync -avz --status=progress /var/www/public_html/.htaccess root@<remote-ip>:/var/www/public_html/

    As mentioned in the comments: since -a includes recurse, one little typo can make it kick off a full directory tree transfer, so a more fool-proof approach might to just use -vz, or replace it with -lptgoD.