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May 31, 2021 at 9:47 comment added bomben The problem with rsync is that it is designed to check if a file has been changed and then copy parts of it. This takes a lot of time. cp should be faster.
Feb 16, 2020 at 4:16 comment added adentinger With rsync installed, this is a perfect answer.
Jul 12, 2017 at 22:41 comment added Bob Eager The use of -z is certainly pretty useless for local copies. However, I haven't seen that documented anywhere. I have done local copies and accidentally used -z, and there has been a small 'speedup' according to the stats from -v.
Jul 12, 2017 at 22:33 comment added Chris Davies -z is ignored for local filesystem copies. rsync won't check anything other than the file size and timestamp before deciding the contents are "the same". On a local to remote copy you can force a checksum comparison, but on local copies rsync simply recopies the files.
Jul 12, 2017 at 21:35 comment added Jaleks Maybe it's worth to try to just download your distributions rsync package, extract it and try to use it from your users folder.
Jul 12, 2017 at 9:26 comment added Bob Eager It's complicated to do the deletion part. It's probably time you pressed management to install rsync!
Jul 12, 2017 at 9:10 comment added Vishnu Sharma Thank you for your answer. But rsync is not installed on server and we are not allowed to do so. Is this possible by running some shell commands?
Jul 12, 2017 at 8:09 history edited Bob Eager CC BY-SA 3.0
Added explanation of --delete-after action.
Jul 12, 2017 at 8:03 history answered Bob Eager CC BY-SA 3.0