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Shell, rsync Added less than a year ago and last edited about a month ago

When I have 90% common files on my laptop and desktop, and I want to sync the remaining files without accidentally deleting anything, I run these commands: 

$ rsync -pogz -urave ssh ~/localdir remote.computer:~/
$ rsync -pogz -urave ssh remote.computer:~/localdir ~/

Then, as you are sure you are now up-to-date on both machines, you can start deleting files on one, and then sync those deletions to the other with: 

$ rsync --delete -pogz -urave ssh ~/localdir remote.computer:~/

Note:

rsync doesn't seem very good at moved files. It will try to copy the whole file across again if it has moved into another dir... check out the fuzzy option... and also this thread for further info.

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