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NAME

       rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool

SYNOPSIS

       Local:
           rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [DEST]

       Access via remote shell:
           Pull:
               rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST:SRC... [DEST]
           Push:
               rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST

       Access via rsync daemon:
           Pull:
               rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST::SRC... [DEST]
               rsync [OPTION...] rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC... [DEST]
           Push:
               rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST::DEST
               rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST)

       Usages  with  just  one  SRC  arg  and  no  DEST arg will list the source files instead of
       copying.

       The online version of this manpage (that includes cross-linking of topics) is available at
       ⟨https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1⟩.

DESCRIPTION

       Rsync  is  a  fast  and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool.  It can copy locally,
       to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon.  It offers a
       large number of options that control every aspect of its behavior and permit very flexible
       specification of the set of files to be copied.   It  is  famous  for  its  delta-transfer
       algorithm,  which  reduces  the  amount  of data sent over the network by sending only the
       differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.  Rsync  is
       widely used for backups and mirroring and as an improved copy command for everyday use.

       Rsync finds files that need to be transferred using a "quick check" algorithm (by default)
       that looks for files that have changed in size or in last-modified time.  Any  changes  in
       the  other preserved attributes (as requested by options) are made on the destination file
       directly when the quick check indicates that the file's data does not need to be updated.

       Some of the additional features of rsync are:

       o      support for copying links, devices, owners, groups, and permissions

       o      exclude and exclude-from options similar to GNU tar

       o      a CVS exclude mode for ignoring the same files that CVS would ignore

       o      can use any transparent remote shell, including ssh or rsh

       o      does not require super-user privileges

       o      pipelining of file transfers to minimize latency costs

       o      support for anonymous or authenticated rsync daemons (ideal for mirroring)

GENERAL

       Rsync copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally on  the  current  host  (it
       does not support copying files between two remote hosts).

       There  are  two  different ways for rsync to contact a remote system: using a remote-shell
       program as the transport (such as ssh or rsh) or contacting an rsync daemon  directly  via
       TCP.   The remote-shell transport is used whenever the source or destination path contains
       a single colon (:) separator after a  host  specification.   Contacting  an  rsync  daemon
       directly  happens  when  the  source  or  destination  path  contains  a double colon (::)
       separator after a host specification, OR when an rsync:// URL is specified (see  also  the
       USING RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION section for an exception to this
       latter rule).

       As a special case, if a single source arg is specified without a  destination,  the  files
       are listed in an output format similar to "ls -l".

       As  expected,  if  neither  the source or destination path specify a remote host, the copy
       occurs locally (see also the --list-only option).

       Rsync refers to the local side as the client and the remote side  as  the  server.   Don't
       confuse  server  with  an  rsync daemon.  A daemon is always a server, but a server can be
       either a daemon or a remote-shell spawned process.

SETUP

       See the file README.md for installation instructions.

       Once installed, you can use rsync to any machine that you can access via  a  remote  shell
       (as  well  as  some that you can access using the rsync daemon-mode protocol).  For remote
       transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications, but it may have been configured
       to use a different remote shell by default, such as rsh or remsh.

       You  can  also  specify  any  remote  shell  you like, either by using the -e command line
       option, or by setting the RSYNC_RSH environment variable.

       Note that rsync must be installed on both the source and destination machines.

USAGE

       You use rsync in the same way you use rcp.  You must specify a source and  a  destination,
       one of which may be remote.

       Perhaps the best way to explain the syntax is with some examples:

           rsync -t *.c foo:src/

       This  would  transfer all files matching the pattern *.c from the current directory to the
       directory src on the machine foo.  If any of the files already exist on the remote  system
       then  the  rsync  remote-update  protocol  is  used to update the file by sending only the
       differences in the data.  Note that the expansion of wildcards on the  command-line  (*.c)
       into  a list of files is handled by the shell before it runs rsync and not by rsync itself
       (exactly the same as all other Posix-style programs).

           rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp

       This would recursively transfer all files from the directory src/bar on  the  machine  foo
       into  the  /data/tmp/bar  directory  on  the  local machine.  The files are transferred in
       archive mode,  which  ensures  that  symbolic  links,  devices,  attributes,  permissions,
       ownerships, etc. are preserved in the transfer.  Additionally, compression will be used to
       reduce the size of data portions of the transfer.

           rsync -avz foo:src/bar/ /data/tmp

       A trailing slash on the source changes this  behavior  to  avoid  creating  an  additional
       directory  level at the destination.  You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning
       "copy the contents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by name",  but  in
       both  cases  the  attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing
       directory on the destination.  In other words, each of the following commands  copies  the
       files in the same way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:

           rsync -av /src/foo /dest
           rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo

       Note  also  that  host  and  module  references don't require a trailing slash to copy the
       contents of the default directory.  For example, both of these copy the remote directory's
       contents into "/dest":

           rsync -av host: /dest
           rsync -av host::module /dest

       You  can  also  use  rsync in local-only mode, where both the source and destination don't
       have a ':' in the name.  In this case it behaves like an improved copy command.

       Finally, you can list all the (listable) modules available from a particular rsync  daemon
       by leaving off the module name:

           rsync somehost.mydomain.com::

COPYING TO A DIFFERENT NAME

       When  you want to copy a directory to a different name, use a trailing slash on the source
       directory to put the contents of the directory into any destination directory you like:

           rsync -ai foo/ bar/

       Rsync also has the ability to customize a destination file's name when  copying  a  single
       item.  The rules for this are:

       o      The  transfer  list  must  consist  of  a  single  item  (either a file or an empty
              directory)

       o      The final element of the destination path must not exist as a directory

       o      The destination path must not have been specified with a trailing slash

       Under those circumstances, rsync will set the name of the destination's single item to the
       last element of the destination path.  Keep in mind that it is best to only use this idiom
       when copying a file and use the above trailing-slash idiom when copying a directory.

       The following example copies the foo.c file as bar.c in the save dir (assuming that  bar.c
       isn't a directory):

           rsync -ai src/foo.c save/bar.c

       The  single-item  copy  rule  might accidentally bite you if you unknowingly copy a single
       item and specify a destination dir that doesn't exist (without using  a  trailing  slash).
       For example, if src/*.c matches one file and save/dir doesn't exist, this will confuse you
       by naming the destination file save/dir:

           rsync -ai src/*.c save/dir

       To prevent such an accident, either make sure the destination dir exists  or  specify  the
       destination path with a trailing slash:

           rsync -ai src/*.c save/dir/

SORTED TRANSFER ORDER

       Rsync  always sorts the specified filenames into its internal transfer list.  This handles
       the merging together of the contents of identically named directories, makes  it  easy  to
       remove  duplicate  filenames.  It  can,  however,  confuse  someone  when  the  files  are
       transferred in a different order than what was given on the command-line.

       If you need a particular file to be transferred prior  to  another,  either  separate  the
       files  into different rsync calls, or consider using --delay-updates (which doesn't affect
       the sorted transfer order, but does make the final file-updating phase  happen  much  more
       rapidly).

MULTI-HOST SECURITY

       Rsync  takes  steps  to  ensure  that  the file requests that are shared in a transfer are
       protected against various security issues.  Most of the potential problems  arise  on  the
       receiving  side where rsync takes steps to ensure that the list of files being transferred
       remains within the bounds of what was requested.

       Toward this end, rsync 3.1.2 and later have aborted when a file list contains an  absolute
       or  relative  path  that  tries to escape out of the top of the transfer.  Also, beginning
       with version 3.2.5, rsync does two more safety checks of the file list to (1) ensure  that
       no  extra  source  arguments were added into the transfer other than those that the client
       requested and (2) ensure that the file list obeys the exclude rules that were sent to  the
       sender.

       For  those  that  don't  yet  have  a  3.2.5  client rsync (or those that want to be extra
       careful), it is safest to do a copy into a dedicated destination directory for the  remote
       files  when  you don't trust the remote host.  For example, instead of doing an rsync copy
       into your home directory:

           rsync -aiv host1:dir1 ~

       Dedicate a "host1-files" dir to the remote content:

           rsync -aiv host1:dir1 ~/host1-files

       See the --trust-sender option for additional details.

       CAUTION: it is not particularly safe to use rsync to copy  files  from  a  case-preserving
       filesystem  to  a  case-ignoring  filesystem.  If you must perform such a copy, you should
       either disable symlinks via --no-links or enable the munging of symlinks via --munge-links
       (and  make  sure  you use the right local or remote option).  This will prevent rsync from
       doing potentially dangerous things if a symlink name overlaps with a file or directory. It
       does not, however, ensure that you get a full copy of all the files (since that may not be
       possible when the names overlap). A potentially better solution is to list all the  source
       files  and  create a safe list of filenames that you pass to the --files-from option.  Any
       files that conflict in name would need to be copied to different  destination  directories
       using more than one copy.

       While  a  copy  of  a  case-ignoring filesystem to a case-ignoring filesystem can work out
       fairly well, if  no  --delete-during  or  --delete-before  option  is  active,  rsync  can
       potentially  update  an  existing  file  on  the  receiving side without noticing that the
       upper-/lower-case of the filename should be changed to match the sender.

ADVANCED USAGE

       The syntax for requesting multiple  files  from  a  remote  host  is  done  by  specifying
       additional  remote-host args in the same style as the first, or with the hostname omitted.
       For instance, all these work:

           rsync -aiv host:file1 :file2 host:file{3,4} /dest/
           rsync -aiv host::modname/file{1,2} host::modname/extra /dest/
           rsync -aiv host::modname/first ::extra-file{1,2} /dest/

       Note that a daemon connection only supports accessing one module per copy command,  so  if
       the  start  of  a  follow-up  path doesn't begin with the modname of the first path, it is
       assumed to be a path in the module (such as the extra-file1 & extra-file2 that are grabbed
       above).

       Really  old versions of rsync (2.6.9 and before) only allowed specifying one remote-source
       arg, so some people have instead relied on the remote-shell performing space splitting  to
       break  up  an arg into multiple paths. Such unintuitive behavior is no longer supported by
       default (though you can request it, as described below).

       Starting in 3.2.4, filenames are passed to a remote shell in such a way as to preserve the
       characters  you  give it. Thus, if you ask for a file with spaces in the name, that's what
       the remote rsync looks for:

           rsync -aiv host:'a simple file.pdf' /dest/

       If you use scripts that have been written to manually apply extra quoting  to  the  remote
       rsync  args  (or  to  require  remote arg splitting), you can ask rsync to let your script
       handle the extra escaping.  This is done by either adding the  --old-args  option  to  the
       rsync  runs  in  the script (which requires a new rsync) or exporting RSYNC_OLD_ARGS=1 and
       RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS=0 (which works with old or new rsync versions).

CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC DAEMON

       It is also possible to use rsync without a remote shell as the transport.   In  this  case
       you  will  directly  connect to a remote rsync daemon, typically using TCP port 873. (This
       obviously requires the daemon to be running on the remote system, so refer to the STARTING
       AN RSYNC DAEMON TO ACCEPT CONNECTIONS section below for information on that.)

       Using rsync in this way is the same as using it with a remote shell except that:

       o      Use  either  double-colon syntax or rsync:// URL syntax instead of the single-colon
              (remote shell) syntax.

       o      The first element of the "path" is actually a module name.

       o      Additional remote source args can use an abbreviated syntax that omits the hostname
              and/or the module name, as discussed in ADVANCED USAGE.

       o      The remote daemon may print a "message of the day" when you connect.

       o      If  you  specify  only  the host (with no module or path) then a list of accessible
              modules on the daemon is output.

       o      If you specify a remote source path but no destination, a listing of  the  matching
              files on the remote daemon is output.

       o      The  --rsh  (-e) option must be omitted to avoid changing the connection style from
              using a socket  connection  to  USING  RSYNC-DAEMON  FEATURES  VIA  A  REMOTE-SHELL
              CONNECTION.

       An example that copies all the files in a remote module named "src":

           rsync -av host::src /dest

       Some  modules  on the remote daemon may require authentication.  If so, you will receive a
       password prompt when you connect.  You can  avoid  the  password  prompt  by  setting  the
       environment  variable  RSYNC_PASSWORD  to  the  password  you  want  to  use  or using the
       --password-file option.  This may be useful when scripting rsync.

       WARNING: On some systems environment variables are visible to all users.  On those systems
       using --password-file is recommended.

       You  may  establish  the  connection  via  a web proxy by setting the environment variable
       RSYNC_PROXY to a hostname:port pair pointing to  your  web  proxy.   Note  that  your  web
       proxy's configuration must support proxy connections to port 873.

       You  may  also  establish  a  daemon  connection using a program as a proxy by setting the
       environment variable RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG to the commands you wish to run in place of making
       a  direct  socket  connection.   The  string  may contain the escape "%H" to represent the
       hostname specified in the rsync command (so use "%%" if you need  a  single  "%"  in  your
       string).  For example:

           export RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG='ssh proxyhost nc %H 873'
           rsync -av targethost1::module/src/ /dest/
           rsync -av rsync://targethost2/module/src/ /dest/

       The command specified above uses ssh to run nc (netcat) on a proxyhost, which forwards all
       data to port 873 (the rsync daemon) on the targethost (%H).

       Note also that if the RSYNC_SHELL environment variable is set, that program will  be  used
       to  run  the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG command instead of using the default shell of the system()
       call.

USING RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION

       It is sometimes useful to use various features of an rsync daemon (such as named  modules)
       without  actually  allowing  any  new socket connections into a system (other than what is
       already required to allow remote-shell access).  Rsync supports connecting to a host using
       a  remote  shell  and  then spawning a single-use "daemon" server that expects to read its
       config file in the home dir of the remote user.  This can be useful if you want to encrypt
       a  daemon-style  transfer's  data,  but since the daemon is started up fresh by the remote
       user, you may not be able to use features such as chroot or change the  uid  used  by  the
       daemon.  (For  another  way  to  encrypt a daemon transfer, consider using ssh to tunnel a
       local port to a remote machine and configure a normal rsync daemon on that remote host  to
       only allow connections from "localhost".)

       From  the  user's perspective, a daemon transfer via a remote-shell connection uses nearly
       the same command-line syntax as a normal rsync-daemon transfer, with  the  only  exception
       being  that  you must explicitly set the remote shell program on the command-line with the
       --rsh=COMMAND option. (Setting the RSYNC_RSH in the environment  will  not  turn  on  this
       functionality.) For example:

           rsync -av --rsh=ssh host::module /dest

       If  you  need to specify a different remote-shell user, keep in mind that the user@ prefix
       in front of the host is specifying the rsync-user value (for a module that requires  user-
       based  authentication).   This  means  that you must give the '-l user' option to ssh when
       specifying the remote-shell, as in this example that uses the short version of  the  --rsh
       option:

           rsync -av -e "ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user@host::module /dest

       The  "ssh-user"  will be used at the ssh level; the "rsync-user" will be used to log-in to
       the "module".

       In this setup, the daemon is started by the ssh  command  that  is  accessing  the  system
       (which  can  be  forced  via  the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, if desired).  However, when
       accessing a daemon directly, it needs to be started beforehand.

STARTING AN RSYNC DAEMON TO ACCEPT CONNECTIONS

       In order to connect to an rsync daemon, the remote system needs to have a  daemon  already
       running  (or it needs to have configured something like inetd to spawn an rsync daemon for
       incoming connections on a particular port).  For full information on how to start a daemon
       that  will handling incoming socket connections, see the rsyncd.conf(5) manpage -- that is
       the config file for the daemon, and it contains the full details for how to run the daemon
       (including stand-alone and inetd configurations).

       If  you're  using one of the remote-shell transports for the transfer, there is no need to
       manually start an rsync daemon.

EXAMPLES

       Here are some examples of how rsync can be used.

       To backup a home directory, which consists of large MS Word files and mail folders, a per-
       user cron job can be used that runs this each day:

           rsync -aiz . bkhost:backup/joe/

       To move some files from a remote host to the local host, you could run:

           rsync -aiv --remove-source-files rhost:/tmp/{file1,file2}.c ~/src/

OPTION SUMMARY

       Here  is  a short summary of the options available in rsync.  Each option also has its own
       detailed description later in this manpage.

       --verbose, -v            increase verbosity
       --info=FLAGS             fine-grained informational verbosity
       --debug=FLAGS            fine-grained debug verbosity
       --stderr=e|a|c           change stderr output mode (default: errors)
       --quiet, -q              suppress non-error messages
       --no-motd                suppress daemon-mode MOTD
       --checksum, -c           skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
       --archive, -a            archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
       --no-OPTION              turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
       --recursive, -r          recurse into directories
       --relative, -R           use relative path names
       --no-implied-dirs        don't send implied dirs with --relative
       --backup, -b             make backups (see --suffix & --backup-dir)
       --backup-dir=DIR         make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
       --suffix=SUFFIX          backup suffix (default ~ w/o --backup-dir)
       --update, -u             skip files that are newer on the receiver
       --inplace                update destination files in-place
       --append                 append data onto shorter files
       --append-verify          --append w/old data in file checksum
       --dirs, -d               transfer directories without recursing
       --old-dirs, --old-d      works like --dirs when talking to old rsync
       --mkpath                 create destination's missing path components
       --links, -l              copy symlinks as symlinks
       --copy-links, -L         transform symlink into referent file/dir
       --copy-unsafe-links      only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed
       --safe-links             ignore symlinks that point outside the tree
       --munge-links            munge symlinks to make them safe & unusable
       --copy-dirlinks, -k      transform symlink to dir into referent dir
       --keep-dirlinks, -K      treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
       --hard-links, -H         preserve hard links
       --perms, -p              preserve permissions
       --executability, -E      preserve executability
       --chmod=CHMOD            affect file and/or directory permissions
       --acls, -A               preserve ACLs (implies --perms)
       --xattrs, -X             preserve extended attributes
       --owner, -o              preserve owner (super-user only)
       --group, -g              preserve group
       --devices                preserve device files (super-user only)
       --copy-devices           copy device contents as a regular file
       --write-devices          write to devices as files (implies --inplace)
       --specials               preserve special files
       -D                       same as --devices --specials
       --times, -t              preserve modification times
       --atimes, -U             preserve access (use) times
       --open-noatime           avoid changing the atime on opened files
       --crtimes, -N            preserve create times (newness)
       --omit-dir-times, -O     omit directories from --times
       --omit-link-times, -J    omit symlinks from --times
       --super                  receiver attempts super-user activities
       --fake-super             store/recover privileged attrs using xattrs
       --sparse, -S             turn sequences of nulls into sparse blocks
       --preallocate            allocate dest files before writing them
       --dry-run, -n            perform a trial run with no changes made
       --whole-file, -W         copy files whole (w/o delta-xfer algorithm)
       --checksum-choice=STR    choose the checksum algorithm (aka --cc)
       --one-file-system, -x    don't cross filesystem boundaries
       --block-size=SIZE, -B    force a fixed checksum block-size
       --rsh=COMMAND, -e        specify the remote shell to use
       --rsync-path=PROGRAM     specify the rsync to run on remote machine
       --existing               skip creating new files on receiver
       --ignore-existing        skip updating files that exist on receiver
       --remove-source-files    sender removes synchronized files (non-dir)
       --del                    an alias for --delete-during
       --delete                 delete extraneous files from dest dirs
       --delete-before          receiver deletes before xfer, not during
       --delete-during          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 dest 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 dirs even if not empty
       --max-delete=NUM         don't delete more than NUM files
       --max-size=SIZE          don't transfer any file larger than SIZE
       --min-size=SIZE          don't transfer any file smaller than SIZE
       --max-alloc=SIZE         change a limit relating to memory alloc
       --partial                keep partially transferred files
       --partial-dir=DIR        put a partially transferred file into DIR
       --delay-updates          put all updated files into place at end
       --prune-empty-dirs, -m   prune empty directory chains from file-list
       --numeric-ids            don't map uid/gid values by user/group name
       --usermap=STRING         custom username mapping
       --groupmap=STRING        custom groupname mapping
       --chown=USER:GROUP       simple username/groupname mapping
       --timeout=SECONDS        set I/O timeout in seconds
       --contimeout=SECONDS     set daemon connection timeout in seconds
       --ignore-times, -I       don't skip files that match size and time
       --size-only              skip files that match in size
       --modify-window=NUM, -@  set the accuracy for mod-time comparisons
       --temp-dir=DIR, -T       create temporary files in directory DIR
       --fuzzy, -y              find similar file for basis if no dest file
       --compare-dest=DIR       also compare destination files relative to DIR
       --copy-dest=DIR          ... and include copies of unchanged files
       --link-dest=DIR          hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
       --compress, -z           compress file data during the transfer
       --compress-choice=STR    choose the compression algorithm (aka --zc)
       --compress-level=NUM     explicitly set compression level (aka --zl)
       --skip-compress=LIST     skip compressing files with suffix in LIST
       --cvs-exclude, -C        auto-ignore files in the same way CVS does
       --filter=RULE, -f        add a file-filtering RULE
       -F                       same as --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'
                                repeated: --filter='- .rsync-filter'
       --exclude=PATTERN        exclude files matching PATTERN
       --exclude-from=FILE      read exclude patterns from FILE
       --include=PATTERN        don't exclude files matching PATTERN
       --include-from=FILE      read include patterns from FILE
       --files-from=FILE        read list of source-file names from FILE
       --from0, -0              all *-from/filter files are delimited by 0s
       --old-args               disable the modern arg-protection idiom
       --secluded-args, -s      use the protocol to safely send the args
       --trust-sender           trust the remote sender's file list
       --copy-as=USER[:GROUP]   specify user & optional group for the copy
       --address=ADDRESS        bind address for outgoing socket to daemon
       --port=PORT              specify double-colon alternate port number
       --sockopts=OPTIONS       specify custom TCP options
       --blocking-io            use blocking I/O for the remote shell
       --outbuf=N|L|B           set out buffering to None, Line, or Block
       --stats                  give some file-transfer stats
       --8-bit-output, -8       leave high-bit chars unescaped in output
       --human-readable, -h     output numbers in a human-readable format
       --progress               show progress during transfer
       -P                       same as --partial --progress
       --itemize-changes, -i    output a change-summary for all updates
       --remote-option=OPT, -M  send OPTION to the remote side only
       --out-format=FORMAT      output updates using the specified FORMAT
       --log-file=FILE          log what we're doing to the specified FILE
       --log-file-format=FMT    log updates using the specified FMT
       --password-file=FILE     read daemon-access password from FILE
       --early-input=FILE       use FILE for daemon's early exec input
       --list-only              list the files instead of copying them
       --bwlimit=RATE           limit socket I/O bandwidth
       --stop-after=MINS        Stop rsync after MINS minutes have elapsed
       --stop-at=y-m-dTh:m      Stop rsync at the specified point in time
       --fsync                  fsync every written file
       --write-batch=FILE       write a batched update to FILE
       --only-write-batch=FILE  like --write-batch but w/o updating dest
       --read-batch=FILE        read a batched update from FILE
       --protocol=NUM           force an older protocol version to be used
       --iconv=CONVERT_SPEC     request charset conversion of filenames
       --checksum-seed=NUM      set block/file checksum seed (advanced)
       --ipv4, -4               prefer IPv4
       --ipv6, -6               prefer IPv6
       --version, -V            print the version + other info and exit
       --help, -h (*)           show this help (* -h is help only on its own)

       Rsync can also be run as a daemon, in which case the following options are accepted:

       --daemon                 run as an rsync daemon
       --address=ADDRESS        bind to the specified address
       --bwlimit=RATE           limit socket I/O bandwidth
       --config=FILE            specify alternate rsyncd.conf file
       --dparam=OVERRIDE, -M    override global daemon config parameter
       --no-detach              do not detach from the parent
       --port=PORT              listen on alternate port number
       --log-file=FILE          override the "log file" setting
       --log-file-format=FMT    override the "log format" setting
       --sockopts=OPTIONS       specify custom TCP options
       --verbose, -v            increase verbosity
       --ipv4, -4               prefer IPv4
       --ipv6, -6               prefer IPv6
       --help, -h               show this help (when used with --daemon)

OPTIONS

       Rsync accepts both long (double-dash + word) and short  (single-dash  +  letter)  options.
       The full list of the available options are described below.  If an option can be specified
       in more than one way, the choices are comma-separated.  Some  options  only  have  a  long
       variant, not a short.

       If the option takes a parameter, the parameter is only listed after the long variant, even
       though it must also be specified for the short.  When  specifying  a  parameter,  you  can
       either  use  the  form --option=param, --option param, -o=param, -o param, or -oparam (the
       latter choices assume that your option has a short variant).

       The parameter may need to be quoted in some manner for it to survive the shell's  command-
       line  parsing.  Also keep in mind that a leading tilde (~) in a pathname is substituted by
       your shell, so make sure that you separate the option name from the pathname using a space
       if you want the local shell to expand it.

       --help Print  a  short  help page describing the options available in rsync and exit.  You
              can also use -h for --help when it is used without  any  other  options  (since  it
              normally means --human-readable).

       --version, -V
              Print  the  rsync version plus other info and exit.  When repeated, the information
              is output is a JSON format that is still fairly readable (client side only).

              The output includes a list of compiled-in capabilities, a  list  of  optimizations,
              the   default  list  of  checksum  algorithms,  the  default  list  of  compression
              algorithms, the default list of daemon auth digests, a link to the rsync web  site,
              and a few other items.

       --verbose, -v
              This  option increases the amount of information you are given during the transfer.
              By default, rsync works silently.  A single -v will give you information about what
              files  are  being  transferred and a brief summary at the end.  Two -v options will
              give you information on what files are being skipped and slightly more  information
              at  the  end.   More  than  two -v options should only be used if you are debugging
              rsync.

              The end-of-run summary tells you the number of  bytes  sent  to  the  remote  rsync
              (which  is  the  receiving side on a local copy), the number of bytes received from
              the remote host, and the average bytes per second of the transferred data  computed
              over  the  entire length of the rsync run. The second line shows the total size (in
              bytes), which is the sum of all the file sizes that rsync considered  transferring.
              It also shows a "speedup" value, which is a ratio of the total file size divided by
              the sum of the sent and received bytes (which is really just a feel-good bigger-is-
              better  number).   Note  that  these  byte values can be made more (or less) human-
              readable by using the --human-readable (or --no-human-readable) options.

              In a modern rsync, the -v option is equivalent to the setting of groups  of  --info
              and  --debug options.  You can choose to use these newer options in addition to, or
              in place of using --verbose, as any  fine-grained  settings  override  the  implied
              settings  of -v.  Both --info and --debug have a way to ask for help that tells you
              exactly what flags are set for each increase in verbosity.

              However, do keep in mind that a daemon's "max verbosity"  setting  will  limit  how
              high  of  a  level the various individual flags can be set on the daemon side.  For
              instance, if the max is 2, then any info and/or debug flag that is set to a  higher
              value  than  what  would  be  set by -vv will be downgraded to the -vv level in the
              daemon's logging.

       --info=FLAGS
              This option lets you have fine-grained control over the information output you want
              to  see.  An individual flag name may be followed by a level number, with 0 meaning
              to silence that output, 1 being  the  default  output  level,  and  higher  numbers
              increasing  the  output  of  that flag (for those that support higher levels).  Use
              --info=help to see all the available flag names, what they output,  and  what  flag
              names are added for each increase in the verbose level.  Some examples:

                  rsync -a --info=progress2 src/ dest/
                  rsync -avv --info=stats2,misc1,flist0 src/ dest/

              Note  that  --info=name's  output  is  affected  by the --out-format and --itemize-
              changes (-i) options.  See those options for more information on what is output and
              when.

              This  option  was added to 3.1.0, so an older rsync on the server side might reject
              your attempts at fine-grained control (if one or more flags needed to  be  send  to
              the  server  and  the  server  was  too  old  to  understand  them).   See also the
              "max verbosity" caveat above when dealing with a daemon.

       --debug=FLAGS
              This option lets you have fine-grained control over the debug output  you  want  to
              see.   An individual flag name may be followed by a level number, with 0 meaning to
              silence that  output,  1  being  the  default  output  level,  and  higher  numbers
              increasing  the  output  of  that flag (for those that support higher levels).  Use
              --debug=help to see all the available flag names, what they output, and  what  flag
              names are added for each increase in the verbose level.  Some examples:

                  rsync -avvv --debug=none src/ dest/
                  rsync -avA --del --debug=del2,acl src/ dest/

              Note  that  some debug messages will only be output when the --stderr=all option is
              specified, especially those pertaining to I/O and buffer debugging.

              Beginning in 3.2.0, this option is no longer auto-forwarded to the server  side  in
              order to allow you to specify different debug values for each side of the transfer,
              as well as to specify a new debug option that is only present in one of  the  rsync
              versions.   If  you  want  to  duplicate the same option on both sides, using brace
              expansion is an easy way to save you some typing.  This works in zsh and bash:

                  rsync -aiv {-M,}--debug=del2 src/ dest/

       --stderr=errors|all|client
              This option controls which processes output to stderr and if info messages are also
              changed  to  stderr.   The  mode  strings can be abbreviated, so feel free to use a
              single letter value.  The 3 possible choices are:

              o      errors - (the default) causes all the  rsync  processes  to  send  an  error
                     directly  to  stderr,  even  if  the  process  is  on the remote side of the
                     transfer.  Info messages are sent  to  the  client  side  via  the  protocol
                     stream.   If  stderr  is not available (i.e. when directly connecting with a
                     daemon via a socket) errors fall back to being sent via the protocol stream.

              o      all - causes all rsync messages (info and error) to get written directly  to
                     stderr  from  all  (possible) processes.  This causes stderr to become line-
                     buffered (instead of raw) and eliminates the ability to divide up  the  info
                     and  error  messages  by  file  handle.   For those doing debugging or using
                     several levels of verbosity, this option can help to avoid clogging  up  the
                     transfer  stream  (which should prevent any chance of a deadlock bug hanging
                     things up).  It also  allows  --debug  to  enable  some  extra  I/O  related
                     messages.

              o      client  -  causes  all  rsync messages to be sent to the client side via the
                     protocol stream.  One client process outputs all messages,  with  errors  on
                     stderr  and  info  messages  on stdout.  This was the default in older rsync
                     versions, but can cause error delays when a lot of transfer data is ahead of
                     the  messages.   If  you're pushing files to an older rsync, you may want to
                     use --stderr=all since that idiom has been around for several releases.

              This option was added in rsync 3.2.3.  This version also began the forwarding of  a
              non-default  setting  to the remote side, though rsync uses the backward-compatible
              options  --msgs2stderr  and  --no-msgs2stderr  to  represent  the  all  and  client
              settings,  respectively.   A newer rsync will continue to accept these older option
              names to maintain compatibility.

       --quiet, -q
              This option decreases the amount of information you are given during the  transfer,
              notably  suppressing  information  messages from the remote server.  This option is
              useful when invoking rsync from cron.

       --no-motd
              This option affects the information that is output by the client at the start of  a
              daemon  transfer.   This suppresses the message-of-the-day (MOTD) text, but it also
              affects the list of modules that the daemon sends in response to the "rsync host::"
              request  (due  to  a  limitation in the rsync protocol), so omit this option if you
              want to request the list of modules from the daemon.

       --ignore-times, -I
              Normally rsync will skip any files that are already the same size and have the same
              modification timestamp.  This option turns off this "quick check" behavior, causing
              all files to be updated.

              This option can  be  confusing  compared  to  --ignore-existing  and  --ignore-non-
              existing  in  that that they cause rsync to transfer fewer files, while this option
              causes rsync to transfer more files.

       --size-only
              This modifies rsync's "quick check" algorithm for finding files  that  need  to  be
              transferred,  changing  it  from  the  default  of transferring files with either a
              changed size or a changed last-modified time to just looking for  files  that  have
              changed  in  size.   This  is useful when starting to use rsync after using another
              mirroring system which may not preserve timestamps exactly.

       --modify-window=NUM, -@
              When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the timestamps as being equal  if  they
              differ  by  no  more than the modify-window value.  The default is 0, which matches
              just integer seconds.  If you specify a negative value  (and  the  receiver  is  at
              least  version 3.1.3) then nanoseconds will also be taken into account.  Specifying
              1 is useful for copies to/from MS Windows FAT filesystems, because  FAT  represents
              times  with a 2-second resolution (allowing times to differ from the original by up
              to 1 second).

              If you want all your transfers to default to comparing nanoseconds, you can  create
              a ~/.popt file and put these lines in it:

                  rsync alias -a -a@-1
                  rsync alias -t -t@-1

              With  that  as  the  default,  you'd need to specify --modify-window=0 (aka -@0) to
              override it and ignore nanoseconds, e.g. if you're copying between ext3  and  ext4,
              or if the receiving rsync is older than 3.1.3.

       --checksum, -c
              This changes the way rsync checks if the files have been changed and are in need of
              a transfer.  Without this option, rsync uses a  "quick  check"  that  (by  default)
              checks  if  each file's size and time of last modification match between the sender
              and receiver.  This option changes this to compare a 128-bit checksum for each file
              that  has  a  matching  size.   Generating the checksums means that both sides will
              expend a lot of disk I/O reading all the data in the files in the transfer, so this
              can  slow  things down significantly (and this is prior to any reading that will be
              done to transfer changed files)

              The sending side generates its checksums while it is  doing  the  file-system  scan
              that  builds the list of the available files.  The receiver generates its checksums
              when it is scanning for changed files, and will checksum any file that has the same
              size  as  the  corresponding  sender's  file: files with either a changed size or a
              changed checksum are selected for transfer.

              Note  that  rsync  always  verifies  that  each  transferred  file  was   correctly
              reconstructed  on  the  receiving  side  by  checking a whole-file checksum that is
              generated as  the  file  is  transferred,  but  that  automatic  after-the-transfer
              verification  has  nothing  to do with this option's before-the-transfer "Does this
              file need to be updated?" check.

              The checksum used is auto-negotiated between the client and the server, but can  be
              overridden  using  either  the  --checksum-choice  (--cc)  option or an environment
              variable that is discussed in that option's section.

       --archive, -a
              This is equivalent to -rlptgoD.  It is a quick way of saying you want recursion and
              want  to  preserve almost everything.  Be aware that it does not include preserving
              ACLs (-A), xattrs (-X), atimes (-U), crtimes (-N), nor the finding  and  preserving
              of hardlinks (-H).

              The  only  exception to the above equivalence is when --files-from is specified, in
              which case -r is not implied.

       --no-OPTION
              You may turn off one or more implied options by  prefixing  the  option  name  with
              "no-".   Not  all positive options have a negated opposite, but a lot do, including
              those that can be used to disable an implied option (e.g.  --no-D,  --no-perms)  or
              have  different  defaults  in  various  circumstances  (e.g. --no-whole-file, --no-
              blocking-io, --no-dirs).  Every valid negated option accepts both the short and the
              long option name after the "no-" prefix (e.g. --no-R is the same as --no-relative).

              As  an  example,  if  you  want  to use --archive (-a) but don't want --owner (-o),
              instead  of  converting  -a  into  -rlptgD,  you   can   specify   -a --no-o   (aka
              --archive --no-owner).

              The  order  of  the  options  is important: if you specify --no-r -a, the -r option
              would end up being turned on, the opposite of -a --no-r.  Note also that the  side-
              effects  of  the  --files-from option are NOT positional, as it affects the default
              state of several options and slightly changes the meaning of -a (see  the  --files-
              from option for more details).

       --recursive, -r
              This  tells  rsync  to  copy  directories recursively.  See also --dirs (-d) for an
              option that allows the scanning of a single directory.

              See the --inc-recursive option for a discussion of the  incremental  recursion  for
              creating the list of files to transfer.

       --inc-recursive, --i-r
              This  option  explicitly  enables on incremental recursion when scanning for files,
              which is enabled by default when using the --recursive option and both sides of the
              transfer are running rsync 3.0.0 or newer.

              Incremental  recursion  uses  much  less  memory  than  non-incremental, while also
              beginning the transfer more quickly (since it  doesn't  need  to  scan  the  entire
              transfer  hierarchy  before  it  starts  transferring  files).   If no recursion is
              enabled in the source files, this option has no effect.

              Some options require rsync to know the full file list, so these options disable the
              incremental recursion mode.  These include:

              o      --delete-before (the old default of --delete)

              o      --delete-after

              o      --prune-empty-dirs

              o      --delay-updates

              In  order  to make --delete compatible with incremental recursion, rsync 3.0.0 made
              --delete-during the default delete mode (which was first added in 2.6.4).

              One side-effect of incremental recursion is that any missing sub-directories inside
              a  recursively-scanned  directory  are (by default) created prior to recursing into
              the  sub-dirs.   This  earlier  creation  point  (compared  to  a   non-incremental
              recursion) allows rsync to then set the modify time of the finished directory right
              away (without having  to  delay  that  until  a  bunch  of  recursive  copying  has
              finished).   However,  these early directories don't yet have their completed mode,
              mtime,  or  ownership  set --  they  have  more  restrictive   rights   until   the
              subdirectory's  copying  actually begins.  This early-creation idiom can be avoided
              by using the --omit-dir-times option.

              Incremental recursion can  be  disabled  using  the  --no-inc-recursive  (--no-i-r)
              option.

       --no-inc-recursive, --no-i-r
              Disables  the  new incremental recursion algorithm of the --recursive option.  This
              makes rsync scan the full file list before it begins to transfer files.  See --inc-
              recursive for more info.

       --relative, -R
              Use  relative  paths.  This means that the full path names specified on the command
              line are sent to the server rather than just the last parts of the filenames.  This
              is  particularly  useful when you want to send several different directories at the
              same time.  For example, if you used this command:

                  rsync -av /foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

              would create a file named baz.c in /tmp/ on the remote  machine.   If  instead  you
              used

                  rsync -avR /foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

              then  a  file  named  /tmp/foo/bar/baz.c  would  be  created on the remote machine,
              preserving  its  full  path.   These  extra  path  elements  are  called   "implied
              directories" (i.e. the "foo" and the "foo/bar" directories in the above example).

              Beginning  with  rsync  3.0.0, rsync always sends these implied directories as real
              directories in the file list, even if a path element is really  a  symlink  on  the
              sending side.  This prevents some really unexpected behaviors when copying the full
              path of a file that you didn't realize had a symlink in its path.  If you  want  to
              duplicate  a  server-side  symlink,  include  both  the  symlink  via its path, and
              referent directory via its real path.  If you're dealing with an older rsync on the
              sending side, you may need to use the --no-implied-dirs option.

              It is also possible to limit the amount of path information that is sent as implied
              directories for each path you specify.  With a modern rsync  on  the  sending  side
              (beginning with 2.6.7), you can insert a dot and a slash into the source path, like
              this:

                  rsync -avR /foo/./bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

              That would create /tmp/bar/baz.c on the remote machine. (Note that the dot must  be
              followed  by  a  slash,  so  "/foo/."  would  not  be abbreviated.) For older rsync
              versions, you would need to use a chdir to limit the  source  path.   For  example,
              when pushing files:

                  (cd /foo; rsync -avR bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/)

              (Note  that  the  parens  put  the  two commands into a sub-shell, so that the "cd"
              command doesn't remain in effect for future commands.) If you're pulling files from
              an older rsync, use this idiom (but only for a non-daemon transfer):

                  rsync -avR --rsync-path="cd /foo; rsync" \
                       remote:bar/baz.c /tmp/

       --no-implied-dirs
              This  option  affects  the  default  behavior of the --relative option.  When it is
              specified, the attributes of the implied directories from the source names are  not
              included  in  the transfer.  This means that the corresponding path elements on the
              destination system are left unchanged  if  they  exist,  and  any  missing  implied
              directories  are  created  with default attributes.  This even allows these implied
              path elements to have big differences, such as being a symlink to  a  directory  on
              the receiving side.

              For  instance,  if  a command-line arg or a files-from entry told rsync to transfer
              the file "path/foo/file", the directories "path" and "path/foo"  are  implied  when
              --relative is used.  If "path/foo" is a symlink to "bar" on the destination system,
              the receiving rsync would ordinarily delete "path/foo", recreate it as a directory,
              and receive the file into the new directory.  With --no-implied-dirs, the receiving
              rsync updates "path/foo/file" using the existing path elements,  which  means  that
              the  file ends up being created in "path/bar".  Another way to accomplish this link
              preservation is to use the --keep-dirlinks option (which will also affect  symlinks
              to directories in the rest of the transfer).

              When  pulling files from an rsync older than 3.0.0, you may need to use this option
              if the sending side has a symlink in the path you request and you wish the  implied
              directories to be transferred as normal directories.

       --backup, -b
              With  this  option,  preexisting  destination  files  are  renamed  as each file is
              transferred or deleted.  You can control where the backup file goes  and  what  (if
              any) suffix gets appended using the --backup-dir and --suffix options.

              If you don't specify --backup-dir:

              1.     the --omit-dir-times option will be forced on

              2.     the  use  of  --delete  (without  --delete-excluded),  causes rsync to add a
                     "protect" filter-rule for the backup suffix to the end of all your  existing
                     filters  that  looks  like  this:  -f "P *~".  This rule prevents previously
                     backed-up files from being deleted.

              Note that if you are supplying your own filter rules,  you  may  need  to  manually
              insert your own exclude/protect rule somewhere higher up in the list so that it has
              a high enough priority to be effective (e.g.  if  your  rules  specify  a  trailing
              inclusion/exclusion of *, the auto-added rule would never be reached).

       --backup-dir=DIR
              This  implies  the  --backup  option,  and  tells rsync to store all backups in the
              specified directory on the receiving  side.   This  can  be  used  for  incremental
              backups.   You  can  additionally specify a backup suffix using the --suffix option
              (otherwise the files backed up in the specified directory will keep their  original
              filenames).

              Note  that if you specify a relative path, the backup directory will be relative to
              the destination directory, so you probably want to specify either an absolute  path
              or  a  path that starts with "../".  If an rsync daemon is the receiver, the backup
              dir cannot go outside the module's path hierarchy, so take extra care not to delete
              it or copy into it.

       --suffix=SUFFIX
              This option allows you to override the default backup suffix used with the --backup
              (-b) option.  The default suffix is a ~ if no --backup-dir was specified, otherwise
              it is an empty string.

       --update, -u
              This  forces  rsync  to  skip  any  files which exist on the destination and have a
              modified time that is newer than the source file. (If an existing destination  file
              has a modification time equal to the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes
              are different.)

              Note that this does not affect the copying of  dirs,  symlinks,  or  other  special
              files.  Also, a difference of file format between the sender and receiver is always
              considered to be important enough for an update, no matter  what  date  is  on  the
              objects.  In other words, if the source has a directory where the destination has a
              file, the transfer would occur regardless of the timestamps.

              This option is a TRANSFER RULE, so don't expect any exclude side effects.

              A caution for those that choose to combine --inplace with --update: an  interrupted
              transfer  will  leave  behind  a partial file on the receiving side that has a very
              recent modified time, so re-running the transfer will  probably  not  continue  the
              interrupted  file.   As  such,  it  is  usually  best  to avoid combining this with
              --inplace unless you have implemented manual steps to handle  any  interrupted  in-
              progress files.

       --inplace
              This  option  changes how rsync transfers a file when its data needs to be updated:
              instead of the default method of creating a new copy of the file and moving it into
              place  when  it  is complete, rsync instead writes the updated data directly to the
              destination file.

              This has several effects:

              o      Hard links are not broken.  This means the new data will be visible  through
                     other  hard  links  to  the  destination  file.   Moreover, attempts to copy
                     differing source files onto a multiply-linked destination file  will  result
                     in a "tug of war" with the destination data changing back and forth.

              o      In-use  binaries  cannot  be  updated  (either the OS will prevent this from
                     happening, or binaries that attempt to swap-in their data will misbehave  or
                     crash).

              o      The  file's  data  will  be in an inconsistent state during the transfer and
                     will be left that way if the transfer is interrupted or if an update fails.

              o      A file that rsync cannot write to cannot be updated.  While a super user can
                     update  any file, a normal user needs to be granted write permission for the
                     open of the file for writing to be successful.

              o      The efficiency of rsync's delta-transfer algorithm may be  reduced  if  some
                     data  in  the  destination  file is overwritten before it can be copied to a
                     position later in the file.  This does not apply if you use --backup,  since
                     rsync  is  smart  enough  to  use  the backup file as the basis file for the
                     transfer.

              WARNING: you should not use this option to update files that are being accessed  by
              others, so be careful when choosing to use this for a copy.

              This  option  is  useful  for  transferring large files with block-based changes or
              appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound, not network bound.  It  can
              also  help  keep  a  copy-on-write  filesystem  snapshot  from diverging the entire
              contents of a file that only has minor changes.

              The option implies --partial (since an interrupted transfer  does  not  delete  the
              file),  but conflicts with --partial-dir and --delay-updates.  Prior to rsync 2.6.4
              --inplace was also incompatible with --compare-dest and --link-dest.

       --append
              This special copy mode only works to efficiently update files that are known to  be
              growing larger where any existing content on the receiving side is also known to be
              the same as the content on the sender.  The use of --append can be dangerous if you
              aren't 100% sure that all the files in the transfer are shared, growing files.  You
              should thus use filter rules to ensure that you weed out any files that do not  fit
              this criteria.

              Rsync  updates  these  growing  file in-place without verifying any of the existing
              content in the file (it only verifies the content that  it  is  appending).   Rsync
              skips  any  files  that  exist  on the receiving side that are not shorter than the
              associated file on the sending side (which means that new files  are  transferred).
              It also skips any files whose size on the sending side gets shorter during the send
              negotiations (rsync warns about a "diminished" file when this happens).

              This does not interfere with the updating of a file's non-content attributes  (e.g.
              permissions,  ownership,  etc.)  when the file does not need to be transferred, nor
              does it affect the updating of any directories or non-regular files.

       --append-verify
              This special copy mode works like --append except that all the data in the file  is
              included   in  the  checksum  verification  (making  it  less  efficient  but  also
              potentially safer).  This option can be dangerous if you aren't 100% sure that  all
              the  files  in the transfer are shared, growing files.  See the --append option for
              more details.

              Note: prior to rsync 3.0.0, the --append option worked like --append-verify, so  if
              you  are interacting with an older rsync (or the transfer is using a protocol prior
              to 30), specifying either append option will initiate an --append-verify transfer.

       --dirs, -d
              Tell the sending side to include any  directories  that  are  encountered.   Unlike
              --recursive,  a  directory's  contents  are  not  copied  unless the directory name
              specified is "." or ends with a trailing slash (e.g.  ".", "dir/.", "dir/",  etc.).
              Without  this  option or the --recursive option, rsync will skip all directories it
              encounters (and output a message to that effect for each one).  If you specify both
              --dirs and --recursive, --recursive takes precedence.

              The  --dirs  option is implied by the --files-from option or the --list-only option
              (including an implied --list-only usage) if --recursive wasn't specified  (so  that
              directories are seen in the listing).  Specify --no-dirs (or --no-d) if you want to
              turn this off.

              There is also a backward-compatibility helper  option,  --old-dirs  (--old-d)  that
              tells  rsync  to  use a hack of -r --exclude='/*/*' to get an older rsync to list a
              single directory without recursing.

       --mkpath
              Create all missing path components of the destination path.

              By default, rsync allows only the final component of the destination  path  to  not
              exist,  which  is  an  attempt to help you to validate your destination path.  With
              this option, rsync creates all the missing destination-path components, just as  if
              mkdir -p $DEST_PATH had been run on the receiving side.

              When  specifying  a  destination  path, including a trailing slash ensures that the
              whole path is treated as directory names to be created, even when the file list has
              a  single item. See the COPYING TO A DIFFERENT NAME section for full details on how
              rsync decides if  a  final  destination-path  component  should  be  created  as  a
              directory or not.

              If  you  would  like  the  newly-created  destination dirs to match the dirs on the
              sending side, you should  be  using  --relative  (-R)  instead  of  --mkpath.   For
              instance,  the following two commands result in the same destination tree, but only
              the second command ensures that the "some/extra/path" components match the dirs  on
              the sending side:

                  rsync -ai --mkpath host:some/extra/path/*.c some/extra/path/
                  rsync -aiR host:some/extra/path/*.c ./

       --links, -l
              Add symlinks to the transferred files instead of noisily ignoring them with a "non-
              regular file" warning for each symlink encountered.  You  can  alternately  silence
              the warning by specifying --info=nonreg0.

              The  default  handling of symlinks is to recreate each symlink's unchanged value on
              the receiving side.

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --copy-links, -L
              The sender transforms each symlink encountered in the transfer  into  the  referent
              item,  following the symlink chain to the file or directory that it references.  If
              a symlink chain is broken, an error is output and the  file  is  dropped  from  the
              transfer.

              This  option  supersedes  any  other  options that affect symlinks in the transfer,
              since there are no symlinks left in the transfer.

              This option does not change the handling of  existing  symlinks  on  the  receiving
              side,  unlike versions of rsync prior to 2.6.3 which had the side-effect of telling
              the receiving side to also follow symlinks.  A  modern  rsync  won't  forward  this
              option to a remote receiver (since only the sender needs to know about it), so this
              caveat should only affect someone using an rsync client older than 2.6.7 (which  is
              when -L stopped being forwarded to the receiver).

              See  the --keep-dirlinks (-K) if you need a symlink to a directory to be treated as
              a real directory on the receiving side.

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --copy-unsafe-links
              This tells rsync to copy the referent of symbolic  links  that  point  outside  the
              copied  tree.   Absolute  symlinks are also treated like ordinary files, and so are
              any symlinks in the source path itself when --relative is used.

              Note that the cut-off point is the top of the transfer, which is the  part  of  the
              path  that rsync isn't mentioning in the verbose output.  If you copy "/src/subdir"
              to "/dest/" then the "subdir" directory is a name inside the transfer tree, not the
              top of the transfer (which is /src) so it is legal for created relative symlinks to
              refer to other names inside the /src and /dest directories.  If  you  instead  copy
              "/src/subdir/"  (with  a  trailing  slash)  to  "/dest/subdir" that would not allow
              symlinks to any files outside of "subdir".

              Note that safe symlinks are only copied if --links was also specified  or  implied.
              The --copy-unsafe-links option has no extra effect when combined with --copy-links.

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --safe-links
              This  tells  the receiving rsync to ignore any symbolic links in the transfer which
              point outside the copied tree.  All absolute symlinks are also ignored.

              Since this ignoring is happening on the receiving side, it will still be  effective
              even when the sending side has munged symlinks (when it is using --munge-links). It
              also affects deletions, since the file being present in the transfer  prevents  any
              matching  file  on the receiver from being deleted when the symlink is deemed to be
              unsafe and is skipped.

              This option must be combined with --links (or --archive) to have  any  symlinks  in
              the  transfer  to  conditionally ignore. Its effect is superseded by --copy-unsafe-
              links.

              Using this option in conjunction with --relative may give unexpected results.

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --munge-links
              This option affects just one side of the transfer and tells rsync to munge  symlink
              values  when  it  is  receiving  files or unmunge symlink values when it is sending
              files.  The munged values make  the  symlinks  unusable  on  disk  but  allows  the
              original contents of the symlinks to be recovered.

              The  server-side  rsync  often  enables this option without the client's knowledge,
              such as in an rsync daemon's configuration file or by an option given to the rrsync
              (restricted  rsync)  script.  When specified on the client side, specify the option
              normally if it is the client side  that  has/needs  the  munged  symlinks,  or  use
              -M--munge-links  to  give  the  option  to  the server when it has/needs the munged
              symlinks.  Note that on a local transfer, the client is the sender,  so  specifying
              the option directly unmunges symlinks while specifying it as a remote option munges
              symlinks.

              This option has no effect when sent to a daemon  via  --remote-option  because  the
              daemon  configures  whether  it  wants  munged  symlinks  via  its "munge symlinks"
              parameter.

              The symlink value is munged/unmunged once it is in the transfer, so any option that
              transforms  symlinks into non-symlinks occurs prior to the munging/unmunging except
              for --safe-links, which is a choice that  the  receiver  makes,  so  it  bases  its
              decision  on  the  munged/unmunged  value.   This  does mean that if a receiver has
              munging enabled, that using --safe-links will cause  all  symlinks  to  be  ignored
              (since they are all absolute).

              The method that rsync uses to munge the symlinks is to prefix each one's value with
              the string "/rsyncd-munged/".  This prevents the links from being used as  long  as
              the  directory  does  not exist.  When this option is enabled, rsync will refuse to
              run if that path is a directory or a symlink to a directory (though it only  checks
              at  startup).  See also the "munge-symlinks" python script in the support directory
              of the source code for a way to munge/unmunge one or more symlinks in-place.

       --copy-dirlinks, -k
              This option causes the sending side to treat a symlink to a directory as though  it
              were  a  real  directory.   This  is  useful  if  you  don't  want symlinks to non-
              directories to be affected, as they would be using --copy-links.

              Without this option, if the sending side has replaced a directory with a symlink to
              a  directory, the receiving side will delete anything that is in the way of the new
              symlink, including a directory hierarchy (as long as  --force  or  --delete  is  in
              effect).

              See also --keep-dirlinks for an analogous option for the receiving side.

              --copy-dirlinks  applies to all symlinks to directories in the source.  If you want
              to follow only a few specified symlinks, a trick you can use is  to  pass  them  as
              additional  source  args  with a trailing slash, using --relative to make the paths
              match up right.  For example:

                  rsync -r --relative src/./ src/./follow-me/ dest/

              This works because rsync calls lstat(2)  on  the  source  arg  as  given,  and  the
              trailing slash makes lstat(2) follow the symlink, giving rise to a directory in the
              file-list which overrides the symlink found during the scan of "src/./".

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --keep-dirlinks, -K
              This option causes the receiving side to treat a symlink to a directory  as  though
              it  were a real directory, but only if it matches a real directory from the sender.
              Without this option, the receiver's symlink would be deleted and  replaced  with  a
              real directory.

              For  example,  suppose  you transfer a directory "foo" that contains a file "file",
              but "foo" is a symlink  to  directory  "bar"  on  the  receiver.   Without  --keep-
              dirlinks,  the  receiver  deletes  symlink  "foo", recreates it as a directory, and
              receives the file into the new directory.  With --keep-dirlinks, the receiver keeps
              the symlink and "file" ends up in "bar".

              One note of caution: if you use --keep-dirlinks, you must trust all the symlinks in
              the copy or enable the --munge-links option  on  the  receiving  side!   If  it  is
              possible  for  an untrusted user to create their own symlink to any real directory,
              the user could then (on  a  subsequent  copy)  replace  the  symlink  with  a  real
              directory and affect the content of whatever directory the symlink references.  For
              backup copies, you are better off using something like a bind mount  instead  of  a
              symlink to modify your receiving hierarchy.

              See also --copy-dirlinks for an analogous option for the sending side.

              See the SYMBOLIC LINKS section for multi-option info.

       --hard-links, -H
              This  tells rsync to look for hard-linked files in the source and link together the
              corresponding files on the destination.  Without this option, hard-linked files  in
              the source are treated as though they were separate files.

              This  option  does  NOT  necessarily  ensure  that the pattern of hard links on the
              destination exactly matches that on the source.  Cases in which the destination may
              end up with extra hard links include the following:

              o      If the destination contains extraneous hard-links (more linking than what is
                     present in the source file list), the copying algorithm will not break  them
                     explicitly.   However, if one or more of the paths have content differences,
                     the normal file-update process will break those extra links (unless you  are
                     using the --inplace option).

              o      If you specify a --link-dest directory that contains hard links, the linking
                     of the destination files against the --link-dest files can cause some  paths
                     in  the  destination  to  become  linked  together  due  to  the --link-dest
                     associations.

              Note that rsync can only detect hard  links  between  files  that  are  inside  the
              transfer  set.   If  rsync  updates  a file that has extra hard-link connections to
              files outside the transfer, that linkage will be broken.  If you are tempted to use
              the --inplace option to avoid this breakage, be very careful that you know how your
              files are being updated so that you are certain that no unintended  changes  happen
              due to lingering hard links (and see the --inplace option for more caveats).

              If  incremental  recursion  is  active  (see --inc-recursive), rsync may transfer a
              missing hard-linked file before it finds that another link for that contents exists
              elsewhere  in  the  hierarchy.   This  does not affect the accuracy of the transfer
              (i.e. which files are hard-linked together), just its efficiency (i.e. copying  the
              data  for  a new, early copy of a hard-linked file that could have been found later
              in the transfer in another member of the hard-linked set of  files).   One  way  to
              avoid  this  inefficiency  is  to disable incremental recursion using the --no-inc-
              recursive option.

       --perms, -p
              This option causes the receiving rsync to set the destination permissions to be the
              same  as  the  source permissions. (See also the --chmod option for a way to modify
              what rsync considers to be the source permissions.)

              When this option is off, permissions are set as follows:

              o      Existing files (including updated files) retain their existing  permissions,
                     though  the  --executability option might change just the execute permission
                     for the file.

              o      New files get their "normal"  permission  bits  set  to  the  source  file's
                     permissions  masked  with  the  receiving  directory's  default  permissions
                     (either the receiving process's umask, or the permissions specified via  the
                     destination  directory's  default  ACL),  and  their special permission bits
                     disabled except in the case where a new directory inherits a setgid bit from
                     its parent directory.

              Thus,  when  --perms and --executability are both disabled, rsync's behavior is the
              same as that of other file-copy utilities, such as cp(1) and tar(1).

              In summary: to give destination files (both old and new)  the  source  permissions,
              use  --perms.  To give new files the destination-default permissions (while leaving
              existing files unchanged), make sure  that  the  --perms  option  is  off  and  use
              --chmod=ugo=rwX  (which  ensures  that  all non-masked bits get enabled).  If you'd
              care to make this latter behavior easier to type, you could define a popt alias for
              it,  such  as  putting  this line in the file ~/.popt (the following defines the -Z
              option, and includes --no-g to use the default group of the destination dir):

                  rsync alias -Z --no-p --no-g --chmod=ugo=rwX

              You could then use this new option in a command such as this one:

                  rsync -avZ src/ dest/

              (Caveat: make sure that -a does not follow -Z, or it will re-enable the two  --no-*
              options mentioned above.)

              The  preservation of the destination's setgid bit on newly-created directories when
              --perms is off  was  added  in  rsync  2.6.7.   Older  rsync  versions  erroneously
              preserved  the  three  special permission bits for newly-created files when --perms
              was off, while overriding the destination's setgid bit setting on  a  newly-created
              directory.   Default  ACL observance was added to the ACL patch for rsync 2.6.7, so
              older (or non-ACL-enabled) rsyncs use the umask even if default ACLs  are  present.
              (Keep  in  mind  that  it  is the version of the receiving rsync that affects these
              behaviors.)

       --executability, -E
              This option causes rsync to preserve the executability  (or  non-executability)  of
              regular  files  when  --perms  is  not enabled.  A regular file is considered to be
              executable if at least one 'x' is turned on in its permissions.  When  an  existing
              destination  file's  executability  differs  from  that of the corresponding source
              file, rsync modifies the destination file's permissions as follows:

              o      To make a file non-executable, rsync turns off all its 'x' permissions.

              o      To make a file executable, rsync turns on each 'x'  permission  that  has  a
                     corresponding 'r' permission enabled.

              If --perms is enabled, this option is ignored.

       --acls, -A
              This  option  causes  rsync  to  update  the destination ACLs to be the same as the
              source ACLs.  The option also implies --perms.

              The source and destination systems must have compatible ACL entries for this option
              to work properly.  See the --fake-super option for a way to backup and restore ACLs
              that are not compatible.

       --xattrs, -X
              This option causes rsync to update the destination extended attributes  to  be  the
              same as the source ones.

              For  systems  that  support  extended-attribute  namespaces, a copy being done by a
              super-user copies all namespaces except system.*.  A normal user  only  copies  the
              user.* namespace.  To be able to backup and restore non-user namespaces as a normal
              user, see the --fake-super option.

              The above name filtering can be overridden by using one or more filter options with
              the  x  modifier.   When you specify an xattr-affecting filter rule, rsync requires
              that you do your own system/user filtering, as well as any additional filtering for
              what xattr names are copied and what names are allowed to be deleted.  For example,
              to skip the system namespace, you could specify:

                  --filter='-x system.*'

              To skip all namespaces except the user namespace, you could specify a  negated-user
              match:

                  --filter='-x! user.*'

              To  prevent  any  attributes  from being deleted, you could specify a receiver-only
              rule that excludes all names:

                  --filter='-xr *'

              Note that the -X option does not copy rsync's special  xattr  values  (e.g.   those
              used  by  --fake-super)  unless  you  repeat the option (e.g. -XX).  This "copy all
              xattrs" mode cannot be used with --fake-super.

       --chmod=CHMOD
              This option tells rsync to apply one or more comma-separated "chmod" modes  to  the
              permission  of the files in the transfer.  The resulting value is treated as though
              it were the permissions that the sending side supplied for the  file,  which  means
              that  this  option  can  seem to have no effect on existing files if --perms is not
              enabled.

              In addition to the normal parsing rules specified in the chmod(1) manpage, you  can
              specify  an  item that should only apply to a directory by prefixing it with a 'D',
              or specify an item that should only apply to a file by prefixing  it  with  a  'F'.
              For  example,  the  following  will ensure that all directories get marked set-gid,
              that no files are other-writable, that both are user-writable  and  group-writable,
              and that both have consistent executability across all bits:

                  --chmod=Dg+s,ug+w,Fo-w,+X

              Using octal mode numbers is also allowed:

                  --chmod=D2775,F664

              It  is also legal to specify multiple --chmod options, as each additional option is
              just appended to the list of changes to make.

              See the --perms and --executability options for how the resulting permission  value
              can be applied to the files in the transfer.

       --owner, -o
              This option causes rsync to set the owner of the destination file to be the same as
              the source file, but only if the receiving rsync is being  run  as  the  super-user
              (see also the --super and --fake-super options).  Without this option, the owner of
              new and/or transferred files are set to the invoking user on the receiving side.

              The preservation of ownership will associate matching names  by  default,  but  may
              fall  back to using the ID number in some circumstances (see also the --numeric-ids
              option for a full discussion).

       --group, -g
              This option causes rsync to set the group of the destination file to be the same as
              the  source file.  If the receiving program is not running as the super-user (or if
              --no-super was specified), only groups that the invoking user on the receiving side
              is  a  member  of  will be preserved.  Without this option, the group is set to the
              default group of the invoking user on the receiving side.

              The preservation of group information will associate matching names by default, but
              may fall back to using the ID number in some circumstances (see also the --numeric-
              ids option for a full discussion).

       --devices
              This option causes rsync to transfer character and block device files to the remote
              system  to  recreate these devices.  If the receiving rsync is not being run as the
              super-user, rsync silently skips creating the device files (see  also  the  --super
              and --fake-super options).

              By  default,  rsync  generates  a  "non-regular  file" warning for each device file
              encountered when this option is not set.  You can silence the warning by specifying
              --info=nonreg0.

       --specials
              This  option  causes  rsync  to  transfer  special files, such as named sockets and
              fifos.  If the receiving rsync is not being run as the super-user,  rsync  silently
              skips creating the special files (see also the --super and --fake-super options).

              By  default,  rsync  generates  a  "non-regular file" warning for each special file
              encountered when this option is not set.  You can silence the warning by specifying
              --info=nonreg0.

       -D     The -D option is equivalent to "--devices --specials".

       --copy-devices
              This  tells rsync to treat a device on the sending side as a regular file, allowing
              it to be copied to a normal destination file (or another device if  --write-devices
              was also specified).

              This option is refused by default by an rsync daemon.

       --write-devices
              This  tells  rsync  to  treat  a  device  on  the receiving side as a regular file,
              allowing the writing of file data into a device.

              This option implies the --inplace option.

              Be careful using this, as you should know what devices are present on the receiving
              side of the transfer, especially when running rsync as root.

              This option is refused by default by an rsync daemon.

       --times, -t
              This  tells  rsync  to  transfer modification times along with the files and update
              them on the remote system.  Note that if this option is not used, the  optimization
              that  excludes  files  that  have  not  been modified cannot be effective; in other
              words, a missing -t (or -a) will cause the next transfer to behave as  if  it  used
              --ignore-times (-I), causing all files to be updated (though rsync's delta-transfer
              algorithm will make the update fairly  efficient  if  the  files  haven't  actually
              changed, you're much better off using -t).

              A modern rsync that is using transfer protocol 30 or 31 conveys a modify time using
              up to 8-bytes. If rsync is forced to speak an older protocol (perhaps  due  to  the
              remote rsync being older than 3.0.0) a modify time is conveyed using 4-bytes. Prior
              to 3.2.7, these shorter  values  could  convey  a  date  range  of  13-Dec-1901  to
              19-Jan-2038.   Beginning with 3.2.7, these 4-byte values now convey a date range of
              1-Jan-1970 to 7-Feb-2106.  If you have files dated older than 1970, make sure  your
              rsync executables are upgraded so that the full range of dates can be conveyed.

       --atimes, -U
              This tells rsync to set the access (use) times of the destination files to the same
              value as the source files.

              If repeated, it also sets the --open-noatime option, which can help you to make the
              sending  and  receiving systems have the same access times on the transferred files
              without needing to run rsync an extra time after a file is transferred.

              Note that some older rsync versions (prior to 3.2.0) may have  been  built  with  a
              pre-release  --atimes  patch that does not imply --open-noatime when this option is
              repeated.

       --open-noatime
              This tells rsync to open files with the O_NOATIME flag (on systems that support it)
              to avoid changing the access time of the files that are being transferred.  If your
              OS does not support the O_NOATIME flag then rsync will silently ignore this option.
              Note  also  that  some  filesystems are mounted to avoid updating the atime on read
              access even without the O_NOATIME flag being set.

       --crtimes, -N,
              This tells rsync to set the create times (newness) of the destination files to  the
              same  value  as  the source files. Your OS & filesystem must support the setting of
              arbitrary creation (birth) times for this option to be supported.

       --omit-dir-times, -O
              This tells rsync to omit directories when it is  preserving  modification,  access,
              and create times.  If NFS is sharing the directories on the receiving side, it is a
              good idea to use -O.  This option is inferred if you use --backup without --backup-
              dir.

              This  option  also  has  the side-effect of avoiding early creation of missing sub-
              directories when incremental recursion is  enabled,  as  discussed  in  the  --inc-
              recursive section.

       --omit-link-times, -J
              This  tells  rsync to omit symlinks when it is preserving modification, access, and
              create times.

       --super
              This tells the  receiving  side  to  attempt  super-user  activities  even  if  the
              receiving rsync wasn't run by the super-user.  These activities include: preserving
              users via the --owner option, preserving all groups (not just  the  current  user's
              groups) via the --group option, and copying devices via the --devices option.  This
              is useful for systems that allow such activities without being the super-user,  and
              also for ensuring that you will get errors if the receiving side isn't being run as
              the super-user.  To turn off super-user activities, the super-user  can  use  --no-
              super.

       --fake-super
              When   this   option   is   enabled,   rsync  simulates  super-user  activities  by
              saving/restoring the privileged attributes via special extended attributes that are
              attached to each file (as needed).  This includes the file's owner and group (if it
              is not the default), the file's device info (device & special files are created  as
              empty  text  files),  and  any permission bits that we won't allow to be set on the
              real file (e.g. the real file gets u-s,g-s,o-t for safety) or that would limit  the
              owner's  access  (since  the  real  super-user can always access/change a file, the
              files we create can always be accessed/changed by the creating user).  This  option
              also  handles  ACLs  (if --acls was specified) and non-user extended attributes (if
              --xattrs was specified).

              This is a good way to backup data without using a super-user,  and  to  store  ACLs
              from incompatible systems.

              The  --fake-super option only affects the side where the option is used.  To affect
              the remote side of a remote-shell connection, use the --remote-option (-M) option:

                  rsync -av -M--fake-super /src/ host:/dest/

              For a local copy, this option affects both the source and the destination.  If  you
              wish  a  local  copy  to enable this option just for the destination files, specify
              -M--fake-super.  If you wish a local copy to enable this option just for the source
              files, combine --fake-super with -M--super.

              This option is overridden by both --super and --no-super.

              See also the fake super setting in the daemon's rsyncd.conf file.

       --sparse, -S
              Try  to  handle  sparse  files  efficiently  so  they  take  up  less  space on the
              destination.  If combined with --inplace the file created might  not  end  up  with
              sparse  blocks with some combinations of kernel version and/or filesystem type.  If
              --whole-file is in effect (e.g. for a local copy) then it will always work  because
              rsync truncates the file prior to writing out the updated version.

              Note  that  versions  of  rsync  older  than  3.1.3  will reject the combination of
              --sparse and --inplace.

       --preallocate
              This tells the receiver to allocate each destination  file  to  its  eventual  size
              before  writing  data  to  the file.  Rsync will only use the real filesystem-level
              preallocation support provided by Linux's  fallocate(2)  system  call  or  Cygwin's
              posix_fallocate(3),  not the slow glibc implementation that writes a null byte into
              each block.

              Without this option, larger files may not be entirely contiguous on the filesystem,
              but  with  this option rsync will probably copy more slowly.  If the destination is
              not an extent-supporting filesystem (such as ext4, xfs, NTFS,  etc.),  this  option
              may have no positive effect at all.

              If  combined  with  --sparse,  the file will only have sparse blocks (as opposed to
              allocated sequences of null bytes)  if  the  kernel  version  and  filesystem  type
              support creating holes in the allocated data.

       --dry-run, -n
              This  makes  rsync  perform a trial run that doesn't make any changes (and produces
              mostly the same output as a real run).  It is most  commonly  used  in  combination
              with  the --verbose (-v) and/or --itemize-changes (-i) options to see what an rsync
              command is going to do before one actually runs it.

              The output of --itemize-changes is supposed to be exactly the same on a dry run and
              a  subsequent  real run (barring intentional trickery and system call failures); if
              it isn't, that's a bug.  Other output should be mostly unchanged, but may differ in
              some  areas.   Notably, a dry run does not send the actual data for file transfers,
              so --progress has no effect, the "bytes sent", "bytes  received",  "literal  data",
              and  "matched data" statistics are too small, and the "speedup" value is equivalent
              to a run where no file transfers were needed.

       --whole-file, -W
              This option disables rsync's delta-transfer algorithm, which causes all transferred
              files to be sent whole.  The transfer may be faster if this option is used when the
              bandwidth between the source and destination machines is higher than the  bandwidth
              to  disk  (especially when the "disk" is actually a networked filesystem).  This is
              the default when both the source and destination are specified as local paths,  but
              only if no batch-writing option is in effect.

       --no-whole-file, --no-W
              Disable  whole-file  updating  when  it is enabled by default for a local transfer.
              This usually slows rsync down, but it can be useful if you are trying  to  minimize
              the  writes to the destination file (if combined with --inplace) or for testing the
              checksum-based update algorithm.

              See also the --whole-file option.

       --checksum-choice=STR, --cc=STR
              This option overrides the checksum algorithms.  If one algorithm name is specified,
              it  is  used for both the transfer checksums and (assuming --checksum is specified)
              the pre-transfer checksums.  If two comma-separated names are supplied,  the  first
              name  affects  the transfer checksums, and the second name affects the pre-transfer
              checksums (-c).

              The checksum options that you may be able to use are:

              o      auto (the default automatic choice)

              o      xxh128

              o      xxh3

              o      xxh64 (aka xxhash)

              o      md5

              o      md4

              o      sha1

              o      none

              Run rsync --version to see the default checksum list  compiled  into  your  version
              (which may differ from the list above).

              If  "none"  is  specified  for the first (or only) name, the --whole-file option is
              forced on and no checksum verification is performed on the  transferred  data.   If
              "none"  is specified for the second (or only) name, the --checksum option cannot be
              used.

              The "auto" option is the default, where rsync  bases  its  algorithm  choice  on  a
              negotiation between the client and the server as follows:

              When  both  sides  of  the  transfer  are  at  least 3.2.0, rsync chooses the first
              algorithm in the client's list of choices that is also  in  the  server's  list  of
              choices.  If no common checksum choice is found, rsync exits with an error.  If the
              remote rsync is too old to support checksum negotiation, a value is chosen based on
              the protocol version (which chooses between MD5 and various flavors of MD4 based on
              protocol age).

              The  default  order  can  be  customized  by  setting  the   environment   variable
              RSYNC_CHECKSUM_LIST to a space-separated list of acceptable checksum names.  If the
              string contains a "&" character, it is separated into the "client string  &  server
              string",  otherwise  the  same  string  applies  to both.  If the string (or string
              portion) contains no non-whitespace characters, the default checksum list is  used.
              This method does not allow you to specify the transfer checksum separately from the
              pre-transfer checksum, and it discards "auto" and all unknown  checksum  names.   A
              list with only invalid names results in a failed negotiation.

              The use of the --checksum-choice option overrides this environment list.

       --one-file-system, -x
              This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary when recursing.  This does
              not limit the user's ability to specify items to copy  from  multiple  filesystems,
              just  rsync's  recursion  through  the  hierarchy  of  each directory that the user
              specified, and also the analogous recursion on the receiving side during  deletion.
              Also  keep  in mind that rsync treats a "bind" mount to the same device as being on
              the same filesystem.

              If this option is repeated, rsync omits all mount-point directories from the  copy.
              Otherwise,  it includes an empty directory at each mount-point it encounters (using
              the attributes of the mounted directory because those of the underlying mount-point
              directory are inaccessible).

              If  rsync  has  been  told to collapse symlinks (via --copy-links or --copy-unsafe-
              links), a symlink to a directory on another device is treated like  a  mount-point.
              Symlinks to non-directories are unaffected by this option.

       --ignore-non-existing, --existing
              This  tells  rsync to skip creating files (including directories) that do not exist
              yet on the destination.  If this option  is  combined  with  the  --ignore-existing
              option,  no  files  will  be  updated (which can be useful if all you want to do is
              delete extraneous files).

              This option is a TRANSFER RULE, so don't expect any exclude side effects.

       --ignore-existing
              This tells rsync to skip updating files that already exist on the destination (this
              does  not  ignore  existing  directories,  or  nothing  would  get done).  See also
              --ignore-non-existing.

              This option is a TRANSFER RULE, so don't expect any exclude side effects.

              This option can be useful for those doing backups using the --link-dest option when
              they  need  to continue a backup run that got interrupted.  Since a --link-dest run
              is copied into a  new  directory  hierarchy  (when  it  is  used  properly),  using
              [--ignore-existing  will  ensure  that  the already-handled files don't get tweaked
              (which avoids a change in permissions on the hard-linked files).   This  does  mean
              that this option is only looking at the existing files in the destination hierarchy
              itself.

              When --info=skip2 is used rsync will output "FILENAME exists (INFO)" messages where
              the  INFO indicates one of "type change", "sum change" (requires -c), "file change"
              (based on the quick check),  "attr  change",  or  "uptodate".   Using  --info=skip1
              (which is also implied by 2 -v options) outputs the exists message without the INFO
              suffix.

       --remove-source-files
              This tells  rsync  to  remove  from  the  sending  side  the  files  (meaning  non-
              directories)  that are a part of the transfer and have been successfully duplicated
              on the receiving side.

              Note that you should only use this option on source files that are  quiescent.   If
              you  are  using  this  to move files that show up in a particular directory over to
              another host, make sure that  the  finished  files  get  renamed  into  the  source
              directory,  not  directly  written into it, so that rsync can't possibly transfer a
              file that is not yet fully written.  If you can't first  write  the  files  into  a
              different  directory,  you  should  use  a  naming  idiom  that  lets  rsync  avoid
              transferring files that are not yet finished (e.g. name the file "foo.new" when  it
              is  written,  rename  it  to  "foo"  when  it  is  done,  and  then  use the option
              --exclude='*.new' for the rsync transfer).

              Starting with 3.1.0, rsync will skip the sender-side removal (and output an  error)
              if the file's size or modify time has not stayed unchanged.

              Starting with 3.2.6, a local rsync copy will ensure that the sender does not remove
              a file the receiver just verified, such as when the  user  accidentally  makes  the
              source and destination directory the same path.

       --delete
              This  tells  rsync  to  delete  extraneous files from the receiving side (ones that
              aren't on  the  sending  side),  but  only  for  the  directories  that  are  being
              synchronized.  You must have asked rsync to send the whole directory (e.g. "dir" or
              "dir/") without using a wildcard for the directory's contents (e.g. "dir/*")  since
              the  wildcard  is  expanded  by the shell and rsync thus gets a request to transfer
              individual files, not the files' parent directory.  Files that  are  excluded  from
              the  transfer  are  also  excluded  from being deleted unless you use the --delete-
              excluded option or mark the rules as only matching on the  sending  side  (see  the
              include/exclude modifiers in the FILTER RULES section).

              Prior  to  rsync  2.6.7,  this  option  would have no effect unless --recursive was
              enabled.  Beginning with 2.6.7, deletions will  also  occur  when  --dirs  (-d)  is
              enabled, but only for directories whose contents are being copied.

              This  option  can be dangerous if used incorrectly! It is a very good idea to first
              try a run using the --dry-run (-n) option  to  see  what  files  are  going  to  be
              deleted.

              If  the  sending side detects any I/O errors, then the deletion of any files at the
              destination  will  be  automatically  disabled.   This  is  to  prevent   temporary
              filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the sending side from causing a massive
              deletion of files on the destination.  You can override  this  with  the  --ignore-
              errors option.

              The  --delete  option may be combined with one of the --delete-WHEN options without
              conflict, as well as --delete-excluded.  However,  if  none  of  the  --delete-WHEN
              options are specified, rsync will choose the --delete-during algorithm when talking
              to rsync 3.0.0 or newer, or the --delete-before algorithm when talking to an  older
              rsync.  See also --delete-delay and --delete-after.

       --delete-before
              Request  that  the file-deletions on the receiving side be done before the transfer
              starts.  See --delete (which is implied) for more details on file-deletion.

              Deleting before the transfer is helpful if the filesystem is tight  for  space  and
              removing  extraneous  files  would help to make the transfer possible.  However, it
              does introduce a delay before the start of the transfer, and this delay might cause
              the  transfer to timeout (if --timeout was specified).  It also forces rsync to use
              the old, non-incremental recursion algorithm that requires rsync to  scan  all  the
              files in the transfer into memory at once (see --recursive).

       --delete-during, --del
              Request  that the file-deletions on the receiving side be done incrementally as the
              transfer happens.   The  per-directory  delete  scan  is  done  right  before  each
              directory  is  checked  for  updates, so it behaves like a more efficient --delete-
              before, including doing the deletions prior to any per-directory filter files being
              updated.   This option was first added in rsync version 2.6.4.  See --delete (which
              is implied) for more details on file-deletion.

       --delete-delay
              Request that the file-deletions on  the  receiving  side  be  computed  during  the
              transfer  (like  --delete-during),  and  then removed after the transfer completes.
              This is useful when combined with  --delay-updates  and/or  --fuzzy,  and  is  more
              efficient  than  using  --delete-after (but can behave differently, since --delete-
              after computes the deletions in a separate pass after all updates  are  done).   If
              the  number of removed files overflows an internal buffer, a temporary file will be
              created on the receiving side to hold the names (it is removed while open,  so  you
              shouldn't  see  it  during  the  transfer).   If the creation of the temporary file
              fails, rsync will try to fall back to using --delete-after (which it cannot  do  if
              --recursive  is  doing  an  incremental scan).  See --delete (which is implied) for
              more details on file-deletion.

       --delete-after
              Request that the file-deletions on the receiving side be done  after  the  transfer
              has  completed.  This is useful if you are sending new per-directory merge files as
              a part of the transfer and you want their exclusions to take effect for the  delete
              phase  of  the  current  transfer.   It  also  forces  rsync  to  use the old, non-
              incremental recursion algorithm that requires rsync to scan all the  files  in  the
              transfer into memory at once (see --recursive). See --delete (which is implied) for
              more details on file-deletion.

              See also the --delete-delay option that might be a faster  choice  for  those  that
              just want the deletions to occur at the end of the transfer.

       --delete-excluded
              This option turns any unqualified exclude/include rules into server-side rules that
              do not affect the receiver's deletions.

              By default, an exclude or include has both a  server-side  effect  (to  "hide"  and
              "show"  files  when building the server's file list) and a receiver-side effect (to
              "protect" and "risk" files when deletions are occurring).  Any  rule  that  has  no
              modifier  to  specify what sides it is executed on will be instead treated as if it
              were a server-side rule only, avoiding any "protect" effects of the rules.

              A rule can still apply to both sides even with this option specified if the rule is
              given  both  the sender & receiver modifier letters (e.g., -f'-sr foo').  Receiver-
              side protect/risk rules can also be explicitly specified to  limit  the  deletions.
              This  saves you from having to edit a bunch of -f'- foo' rules into -f'-s foo' (aka
              -f'H foo') rules (not to mention the corresponding includes).

              See the FILTER RULES section for more information.  See --delete (which is implied)
              for more details on deletion.

       --ignore-missing-args
              When  rsync  is  first  processing  the  explicitly  requested  source  files (e.g.
              command-line arguments or --files-from entries), it is normally  an  error  if  the
              file  cannot  be  found.   This  option  suppresses that error, and does not try to
              transfer the file.  This does not affect subsequent vanished-file errors if a  file
              was initially found to be present and later is no longer there.

       --delete-missing-args
              This option takes the behavior of the (implied) --ignore-missing-args option a step
              farther: each missing arg will become  a  deletion  request  of  the  corresponding
              destination  file on the receiving side (should it exist).  If the destination file
              is a non-empty directory, it will  only  be  successfully  deleted  if  --force  or
              --delete  are  in effect.  Other than that, this option is independent of any other
              type of delete processing.

              The missing source files are represented by special file-list entries which display
              as a "*missing" entry in the --list-only output.

       --ignore-errors
              Tells --delete to go ahead and delete files even when there are I/O errors.

       --force
              This  option  tells rsync to delete a non-empty directory when it is to be replaced
              by a non-directory.  This is  only  relevant  if  deletions  are  not  active  (see
              --delete for details).

              Note  for  older  rsync  versions:  --force  used  to  still be required when using
              --delete-after, and it used to be non-functional unless the --recursive option  was
              also enabled.

       --max-delete=NUM
              This  tells  rsync not to delete more than NUM files or directories.  If that limit
              is exceeded, all further deletions are skipped through the end of the transfer.  At
              the  end,  rsync outputs a warning (including a count of the skipped deletions) and
              exits with an error code of 25 (unless some more  important  error  condition  also
              occurred).

              Beginning with version 3.0.0, you may specify --max-delete=0 to be warned about any
              extraneous files in the destination without removing any of  them.   Older  clients
              interpreted  this  as "unlimited", so if you don't know what version the client is,
              you can use the less  obvious  --max-delete=-1  as  a  backward-compatible  way  to
              specify  that  no deletions be allowed (though really old versions didn't warn when
              the limit was exceeded).

       --max-size=SIZE
              This tells rsync to avoid transferring any file that is larger than  the  specified
              SIZE.   A numeric value can be suffixed with a string to indicate the numeric units
              or left unqualified to specify bytes.  Feel free to use a  fractional  value  along
              with the units, such as --max-size=1.5m.

              This option is a TRANSFER RULE, so don't expect any exclude side effects.

              The  first letter of a units string can be B (bytes), K (kilo), M (mega), G (giga),
              T (tera), or P (peta).  If the string is a single char or  has  "ib"  added  to  it
              (e.g.  "G" or "GiB") then the units are multiples of 1024.  If you use a two-letter
              suffix that ends with a "B" (e.g. "kb") then you get units that  are  multiples  of
              1000.  The string's letters can be any mix of upper and lower-case that you want to
              use.

              Finally, if the string ends with either "+1" or "-1", it is offset by one  byte  in
              the indicated direction.  The largest possible value is usually 8192P-1.

              Examples:  --max-size=1.5mb-1  is  1499999 bytes, and --max-size=2g+1 is 2147483649
              bytes.

              Note that rsync versions prior to 3.1.0 did not allow --max-size=0.

       --min-size=SIZE
              This tells rsync to avoid transferring any file that is smaller than the  specified
              SIZE,  which  can  help  in not transferring small, junk files.  See the --max-size
              option for a description of SIZE and other info.

              Note that rsync versions prior to 3.1.0 did not allow --min-size=0.

       --max-alloc=SIZE
              By default rsync limits an individual malloc/realloc to about  1GB  in  size.   For
              most  people this limit works just fine and prevents a protocol error causing rsync
              to request massive amounts of memory.  However, if you have many millions of  files
              in a transfer, a large amount of server memory, and you don't want to split up your
              transfer into  multiple  parts,  you  can  increase  the  per-allocation  limit  to
              something larger and rsync will consume more memory.

              Keep in mind that this is not a limit on the total size of allocated memory.  It is
              a sanity-check value for each individual allocation.

              See the --max-size option for a description of how  SIZE  can  be  specified.   The
              default suffix if none is given is bytes.

              Beginning  in  3.2.7,  a value of 0 is an easy way to specify SIZE_MAX (the largest
              limit possible).

              You can set a default value using the environment  variable  RSYNC_MAX_ALLOC  using
              the  same  SIZE  values  as  supported by this option.  If the remote rsync doesn't
              understand the --max-alloc option, you  can  override  an  environmental  value  by
              specifying  --max-alloc=1g,  which  will make rsync avoid sending the option to the
              remote side (because "1G" is the default).

       --block-size=SIZE, -B
              This forces the block size used in rsync's  delta-transfer  algorithm  to  a  fixed
              value.   It is normally selected based on the size of each file being updated.  See
              the technical report for details.

              Beginning in 3.2.3 the SIZE can be specified with  a  suffix  as  detailed  in  the
              --max-size option.  Older versions only accepted a byte count.

       --rsh=COMMAND, -e
              This  option  allows  you  to choose an alternative remote shell program to use for
              communication between the local and remote copies of rsync.   Typically,  rsync  is
              configured to use ssh by default, but you may prefer to use rsh on a local network.

              If this option is used with [user@]host::module/path, then the remote shell COMMAND
              will be used to run an rsync daemon on the  remote  host,  and  all  data  will  be
              transmitted  through  that  remote  shell  connection, rather than through a direct
              socket connection to a running rsync daemon on the  remote  host.   See  the  USING
              RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION section above.

              Beginning  with rsync 3.2.0, the RSYNC_PORT environment variable will be set when a
              daemon connection is being made via a remote-shell connection.  It is set to  0  if
              the  default  daemon  port is being assumed, or it is set to the value of the rsync
              port that was specified via either the --port option or a non-empty port  value  in
              an  rsync:// URL.  This allows the script to discern if a non-default port is being
              requested, allowing for things such as an SSL or stunnel helper script  to  connect
              to a default or alternate port.

              Command-line  arguments are permitted in COMMAND provided that COMMAND is presented
              to rsync as a single argument.  You must use spaces (not tabs or other  whitespace)
              to  separate  the  command and args from each other, and you can use single- and/or
              double-quotes to preserve spaces in an argument (but not backslashes).   Note  that
              doubling  a  single-quote  inside  a single-quoted string gives you a single-quote;
              likewise for double-quotes (though you need to pay attention to which  quotes  your
              shell is parsing and which quotes rsync is parsing).  Some examples:

                  -e 'ssh -p 2234'
                  -e 'ssh -o "ProxyCommand nohup ssh firewall nc -w1 %h %p"'

              (Note  that  ssh  users  can alternately customize site-specific connect options in
              their .ssh/config file.)

              You can also choose the  remote  shell  program  using  the  RSYNC_RSH  environment
              variable, which accepts the same range of values as -e.

              See also the --blocking-io option which is affected by this option.

       --rsync-path=PROGRAM
              Use  this  to  specify  what program is to be run on the remote machine to start-up
              rsync.  Often used when rsync is not  in  the  default  remote-shell's  path  (e.g.
              --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync).   Note  that  PROGRAM is run with the help of a
              shell, so it can be any program, script, or command sequence you'd care to run,  so
              long  as  it does not corrupt the standard-in & standard-out that rsync is using to
              communicate.

              One tricky example is to set a different default directory on  the  remote  machine
              for use with the --relative option.  For instance:

                  rsync -avR --rsync-path="cd /a/b && rsync" host:c/d /e/

       --remote-option=OPTION, -M
              This  option is used for more advanced situations where you want certain effects to
              be limited to one side of the transfer only.  For instance, if  you  want  to  pass
              --log-file=FILE and --fake-super to the remote system, specify it like this:

                  rsync -av -M --log-file=foo -M--fake-super src/ dest/

              If  you  want  to  have  an option affect only the local side of a transfer when it
              normally affects both sides, send its negation to the remote side.  Like this:

                  rsync -av -x -M--no-x src/ dest/

              Be cautious using this, as it is possible to toggle an option that will cause rsync
              to  have  a different idea about what data to expect next over the socket, and that
              will make it fail in a cryptic fashion.

              Note that you should use a separate -M option for each remote option  you  want  to
              pass.  On older rsync versions, the presence of any spaces in the remote-option arg
              could cause it to be split into separate remote args, but this requires the use  of
              --old-args in a modern rsync.

              When  performing  a local transfer, the "local" side is the sender and the "remote"
              side is the receiver.

              Note some versions of the popt option-parsing library  have  a  bug  in  them  that
              prevents  you from using an adjacent arg with an equal in it next to a short option
              letter (e.g. -M--log-file=/tmp/foo).  If this bug affects your version of popt, you
              can use the version of popt that is included with rsync.

       --cvs-exclude, -C
              This  is  a  useful  shorthand  for excluding a broad range of files that you often
              don't want to transfer between systems.  It uses a  similar  algorithm  to  CVS  to
              determine if a file should be ignored.

              The exclude list is initialized to exclude the following items (these initial items
              are marked as perishable -- see the FILTER RULES section):

                  RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.*  tags TAGS .make.state .nse_depinfo *~  #*
                  .#*  ,*  _$*  *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so
                  *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .git/ .hg/ .bzr/

              then, files listed in a $HOME/.cvsignore are added to the list and any files listed
              in  the  CVSIGNORE  environment  variable  (all  cvsignore  names  are delimited by
              whitespace).

              Finally, any file is ignored if it is in the same directory as  a  .cvsignore  file
              and  matches  one  of  the  patterns listed therein.  Unlike rsync's filter/exclude
              files, these patterns are split on whitespace.  See  the  cvs(1)  manual  for  more
              information.

              If you're combining -C with your own --filter rules, you should note that these CVS
              excludes are appended at the end of your own rules, regardless of where the -C  was
              placed  on  the  command-line.  This makes them a lower priority than any rules you
              specified explicitly.  If you want to control where these CVS excludes get inserted
              into  your  filter rules, you should omit the -C as a command-line option and use a
              combination of --filter=:C and --filter=-C  (either  on  your  command-line  or  by
              putting  the  ":C"  and  "-C" rules into a filter file with your other rules).  The
              first option turns on the per-directory scanning  for  the  .cvsignore  file.   The
              second option does a one-time import of the CVS excludes mentioned above.

       --filter=RULE, -f
              This  option  allows you to add rules to selectively exclude certain files from the
              list of files to be transferred.   This  is  most  useful  in  combination  with  a
              recursive transfer.

              You  may  use  as many --filter options on the command line as you like to build up
              the list of files to exclude.  If the filter contains whitespace, be sure to  quote
              it  so that the shell gives the rule to rsync as a single argument.  The text below
              also mentions that you can use an underscore to replace the space that separates  a
              rule from its arg.

              See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.

       -F     The  -F  option  is a shorthand for adding two --filter rules to your command.  The
              first time it is used is a shorthand for this rule:

                  --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'

              This tells rsync to look for  per-directory  .rsync-filter  files  that  have  been
              sprinkled  through  the  hierarchy  and  use their rules to filter the files in the
              transfer.  If -F is repeated, it is a shorthand for this rule:

                  --filter='exclude .rsync-filter'

              This filters out the .rsync-filter files themselves from the transfer.

              See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on how these options work.

       --exclude=PATTERN
              This option is a simplified form of the --filter option that specifies  an  exclude
              rule  and does not allow the full rule-parsing syntax of normal filter rules.  This
              is equivalent to specifying -f'- PATTERN'.

              See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.

       --exclude-from=FILE
              This option is related to the --exclude  option,  but  it  specifies  a  FILE  that
              contains  exclude patterns (one per line).  Blank lines in the file are ignored, as
              are whole-line comments that start with ';' or '#'  (filename  rules  that  contain
              those characters are unaffected).

              If  a  line  begins with "- " (dash, space) or "+ " (plus, space), then the type of
              rule is being explicitly specified as an exclude or an include (respectively).  Any
              rules without such a prefix are taken to be an exclude.

              If  a  line  consists of just "!", then the current filter rules are cleared before
              adding any further rules.

              If FILE is '-', the list will be read from standard input.

       --include=PATTERN
              This option is a simplified form of the --filter option that specifies  an  include
              rule  and does not allow the full rule-parsing syntax of normal filter rules.  This
              is equivalent to specifying -f'+ PATTERN'.

              See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.

       --include-from=FILE
              This option is related to the --include  option,  but  it  specifies  a  FILE  that
              contains  include patterns (one per line).  Blank lines in the file are ignored, as
              are whole-line comments that start with ';' or '#'  (filename  rules  that  contain
              those characters are unaffected).

              If  a  line  begins with "- " (dash, space) or "+ " (plus, space), then the type of
              rule is being explicitly specified as an exclude or an include (respectively).  Any
              rules without such a prefix are taken to be an include.

              If  a  line  consists of just "!", then the current filter rules are cleared before
              adding any further rules.

              If FILE is '-', the list will be read from standard input.

       --files-from=FILE
              Using this option allows you to specify the exact list of  files  to  transfer  (as
              read  from  the  specified  FILE  or  '-'  for standard input).  It also tweaks the
              default behavior of rsync  to  make  transferring  just  the  specified  files  and
              directories easier:

              o      The  --relative (-R) option is implied, which preserves the path information
                     that is specified for each item in the file (use --no-relative or --no-R  if
                     you want to turn that off).

              o      The  --dirs  (-d) option is implied, which will create directories specified
                     in the list on the destination rather than noisily skipping them (use  --no-
                     dirs or --no-d if you want to turn that off).

              o      The  --archive  (-a)  option's  behavior does not imply --recursive (-r), so
                     specify it explicitly, if you want it.

              o      These side-effects change the default state of rsync, so the position of the
                     --files-from  option on the command-line has no bearing on how other options
                     are parsed (e.g. -a works the same before or  after  --files-from,  as  does
                     --no-R and all other options).

              The filenames that are read from the FILE are all relative to the source dir -- any
              leading slashes are removed and no ".." references are allowed to  go  higher  than
              the source dir.  For example, take this command:

                  rsync -a --files-from=/tmp/foo /usr remote:/backup

              If /tmp/foo contains the string "bin" (or even "/bin"), the /usr/bin directory will
              be created as /backup/bin on the remote host.  If  it  contains  "bin/"  (note  the
              trailing  slash),  the  immediate  contents  of  the  directory  would also be sent
              (without needing to be explicitly mentioned in the file -- this  began  in  version
              2.6.4).   In  both cases, if the -r option was enabled, that dir's entire hierarchy
              would also be transferred (keep in mind that -r needs to  be  specified  explicitly
              with --files-from, since it is not implied by -a.  Also note that the effect of the
              (enabled by default) -r option is to duplicate only the path info that is read from
              the file -- it does not force the duplication of the source-spec path (/usr in this
              case).

              In addition, the --files-from file can be read from the remote host instead of  the
              local  host  if you specify a "host:" in front of the file (the host must match one
              end of the transfer).  As a short-cut, you can specify just a prefix of ":" to mean
              "use the remote end of the transfer".  For example:

                  rsync -a --files-from=:/path/file-list src:/ /tmp/copy

              This  would  copy  all  the  files  specified  in the /path/file-list file that was
              located on the remote "src" host.

              If the --iconv and --secluded-args  options  are  specified  and  the  --files-from
              filenames are being sent from one host to another, the filenames will be translated
              from the sending host's charset to the receiving host's charset.

              NOTE: sorting the list of files in the --files-from input helps rsync  to  be  more
              efficient,  as  it will avoid re-visiting the path elements that are shared between
              adjacent entries.  If  the  input  is  not  sorted,  some  path  elements  (implied
              directories)  may  end  up  being scanned multiple times, and rsync will eventually
              unduplicate them after they get turned into file-list elements.

       --from0, -0
              This tells rsync that the rules/filenames it reads from a file are terminated by  a
              null  ('\0')  character,  not  a  NL,  CR,  or CR+LF.  This affects --exclude-from,
              --include-from, --files-from, and any merged files specified in  a  --filter  rule.
              It  does  not affect --cvs-exclude (since all names read from a .cvsignore file are
              split on whitespace).

       --old-args
              This option tells rsync to stop trying to protect the arg values on the remote side
              from  unintended  word-splitting  or  other  misinterpretation.  It also allows the
              client to treat an empty arg as a "." instead of generating an error.

              The default in a modern rsync is for "shell-active" characters  (including  spaces)
              to  be  backslash-escaped  in  the  args  that  are  sent to the remote shell.  The
              wildcard characters *, ?, [, & ] are not escaped in filename args (allowing them to
              expand  into  multiple  filenames)  while  being  protected in option args, such as
              --usermap.

              If you have a script that wants to use old-style arg splitting  in  its  filenames,
              specify  this  option  once.   If the remote shell has a problem with any backslash
              escapes at all, specify this option twice.

              You may also control this setting via the RSYNC_OLD_ARGS environment variable.   If
              it has the value "1", rsync will default to a single-option setting.  If it has the
              value "2" (or more), rsync will default to a repeated-option  setting.   If  it  is
              "0",  you'll  get  the  default  escaping  behavior.   The  environment  is  always
              overridden by manually specified positive or  negative  options  (the  negative  is
              --no-old-args).

              Note  that  this  option  also  disables the extra safety check added in 3.2.5 that
              ensures that a remote sender isn't including extra top-level items in the file-list
              that  you  didn't request.  This side-effect is necessary because we can't know for
              sure what names to expect when the remote shell is interpreting the args.

              This option conflicts with the --secluded-args option.

       --secluded-args, -s
              This option sends all filenames and most  options  to  the  remote  rsync  via  the
              protocol  (not the remote shell command line) which avoids letting the remote shell
              modify them.  Wildcards are expanded on the remote  host  by  rsync  instead  of  a
              shell.

              This  is  similar to the default backslash-escaping of args that was added in 3.2.4
              (see --old-args) in that it prevents  things  like  space  splitting  and  unwanted
              special-character side-effects. However, it has the drawbacks of being incompatible
              with older rsync versions (prior to 3.0.0)  and  of  being  refused  by  restricted
              shells that want to be able to inspect all the option values for safety.

              This option is useful for those times that you need the argument's character set to
              be converted for the remote host, if the remote  shell  is  incompatible  with  the
              default  backslash-escpaing method, or there is some other reason that you want the
              majority of the options and arguments to bypass  the  command-line  of  the  remote
              shell.

              If  you  combine this option with --iconv, the args related to the remote side will
              be translated from the local to the remote character-set.  The translation  happens
              before wild-cards are expanded.  See also the --files-from option.

              You  may also control this setting via the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable.
              If it has a non-zero value, this setting will be enabled by default,  otherwise  it
              will  be  disabled  by default.  Either state is overridden by a manually specified
              positive or negative version of this option (note that  --no-s  and  --no-secluded-
              args are the negative versions).  This environment variable is also superseded by a
              non-zero RSYNC_OLD_ARGS export.

              This option conflicts with the --old-args option.

              This option used to be called --protect-args (before 3.2.6) and that older name can
              still be used (though specifying it as -s is always the easiest and most compatible
              choice).

       --trust-sender
              This option disables two extra validation checks that a local  client  performs  on
              the file list generated by a remote sender.  This option should only be used if you
              trust the sender to not put something malicious in the file  list  (something  that
              could  possibly  be  done  via  a  modified  rsync, a modified shell, or some other
              similar manipulation).

              Normally, the rsync client (as of version 3.2.5) runs two extra  validation  checks
              when pulling files from a remote rsync:

              o      It  verifies  that  additional  arg items didn't get added at the top of the
                     transfer.

              o      It verifies that none of the items in the file list are  names  that  should
                     have been excluded (if filter rules were specified).

              Note  that  various  options can turn off one or both of these checks if the option
              interferes with the validation.  For instance:

              o      Using a per-directory filter file reads filter rules that  only  the  server
                     knows about, so the filter checking is disabled.

              o      Using  the  --old-args  option allows the sender to manipulate the requested
                     args, so the arg checking is disabled.

              o      Reading the files-from list from the  server  side  means  that  the  client
                     doesn't know the arg list, so the arg checking is disabled.

              o      Using --read-batch disables both checks since the batch file's contents will
                     have been verified when it was created.

              This option may help an under-powered client server if the extra  pattern  matching
              is  slowing  things  down on a huge transfer.  It can also be used to work around a
              currently-unknown bug in the verification logic  for  a  transfer  from  a  trusted
              sender.

              When  using  this  option  it  is  a  good  idea to specify a dedicated destination
              directory, as discussed in the MULTI-HOST SECURITY section.

       --copy-as=USER[:GROUP]
              This option instructs rsync to use the USER and (if specified after  a  colon)  the
              GROUP  for  the copy operations.  This only works if the user that is running rsync
              has the ability to change users.  If the group is not  specified  then  the  user's
              default groups are used.

              This  option  can help to reduce the risk of an rsync being run as root into or out
              of a directory that might have live changes happening to it and you  want  to  make
              sure that root-level read or write actions of system files are not possible.  While
              you could alternatively run all of rsync as the specified user, sometimes you  need
              the  root-level  host-access  credentials  to be used, so this allows rsync to drop
              root for the copying part  of  the  operation  after  the  remote-shell  or  daemon
              connection is established.

              The  option  only affects one side of the transfer unless the transfer is local, in
              which case it affects both sides.  Use the --remote-option  to  affect  the  remote
              side,  such  as -M--copy-as=joe.  For a local transfer, the lsh (or lsh.sh) support
              file provides a local-shell helper script that can be used to allow a  "localhost:"
              or  "lh:"  host-spec  to  be  specified without needing to setup any remote shells,
              allowing you to specify remote options that affect the side of the transfer that is
              using  the  host-spec  (and using hostname "lh" avoids the overriding of the remote
              directory to the user's home dir).

              For example, the following rsync writes the local files as user "joe":

                  sudo rsync -aiv --copy-as=joe host1:backups/joe/ /home/joe/

              This makes all files owned by user "joe", limits  the  groups  to  those  that  are
              available  to  that  user,  and  makes it impossible for the joe user to do a timed
              exploit of the path to induce a  change  to  a  file  that  the  joe  user  has  no
              permissions to change.

              The  following  command  does  a  local  copy  into  the  "dest/" dir as user "joe"
              (assuming you've installed support/lsh into a dir on your $PATH):

                  sudo rsync -aive lsh -M--copy-as=joe src/ lh:dest/

       --temp-dir=DIR, -T
              This option instructs rsync to  use  DIR  as  a  scratch  directory  when  creating
              temporary  copies  of  the  files  transferred  on the receiving side.  The default
              behavior is to create each temporary file in the same directory as  the  associated
              destination  file.   Beginning  with  rsync  3.1.1,  the temp-file names inside the
              specified DIR will not be prefixed with an extra dot (though they will still have a
              random suffix added).

              This  option  is  most  often  used when the receiving disk partition does not have
              enough free space to hold a copy of the largest file in the transfer.  In this case
              (i.e.  when the scratch directory is on a different disk partition), rsync will not
              be able to rename each received temporary file  over  the  top  of  the  associated
              destination  file, but instead must copy it into place.  Rsync does this by copying
              the file over the top of the destination file, which  means  that  the  destination
              file  will contain truncated data during this copy.  If this were not done this way
              (even if the destination file were first removed, the  data  locally  copied  to  a
              temporary  file in the destination directory, and then renamed into place) it would
              be possible for the old file to continue taking up disk space (if  someone  had  it
              open),  and  thus there might not be enough room to fit the new version on the disk
              at the same time.

              If you are using this option for reasons other than a shortage of disk  space,  you
              may  wish to combine it with the --delay-updates option, which will ensure that all
              copied files get put into subdirectories in the destination hierarchy, awaiting the
              end  of  the transfer.  If you don't have enough room to duplicate all the arriving
              files on the destination partition, another way  to  tell  rsync  that  you  aren't
              overly  concerned  about  disk  space  is  to  use  the --partial-dir option with a
              relative path; because this tells rsync that it is OK to stash  off  a  copy  of  a
              single  file  in a subdir in the destination hierarchy, rsync will use the partial-
              dir as a staging area to bring over the copied file, and then rename it into  place
              from  there.  (Specifying  a --partial-dir with an absolute path does not have this
              side-effect.)

       --fuzzy, -y
              This option tells rsync that it should look for a basis file  for  any  destination
              file  that  is  missing.   The current algorithm looks in the same directory as the
              destination file for either a file that has an identical size and modified-time, or
              a  similarly-named file.  If found, rsync uses the fuzzy basis file to try to speed
              up the transfer.

              If the option is repeated, the fuzzy  scan  will  also  be  done  in  any  matching
              alternate  destination  directories  that are specified via --compare-dest, --copy-
              dest, or --link-dest.

              Note that the use of the --delete option might get rid of any potential fuzzy-match
              files, so either use --delete-after or specify some filename exclusions if you need
              to prevent this.

       --compare-dest=DIR
              This option instructs rsync to use DIR on the destination machine as an  additional
              hierarchy  to  compare  destination files against doing transfers (if the files are
              missing in the destination directory).  If a file is found in DIR that is identical
              to  the  sender's  file,  the  file  will  NOT  be  transferred  to the destination
              directory.  This is useful for creating a sparse backup of  just  files  that  have
              changed  from  an  earlier  backup.   This option is typically used to copy into an
              empty (or newly created) directory.

              Beginning in version 2.6.4, multiple --compare-dest directories  may  be  provided,
              which  will  cause  rsync  to  search  the list in the order specified for an exact
              match.  If a match is found that differs only in attributes, a local copy  is  made
              and  the attributes updated.  If a match is not found, a basis file from one of the
              DIRs will be selected to try to speed up the transfer.

              If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.   See  also
              --copy-dest and --link-dest.

              NOTE:  beginning  with  version  3.1.0,  rsync  will remove a file from a non-empty
              destination hierarchy if an exact  match  is  found  in  one  of  the  compare-dest
              hierarchies (making the end result more closely match a fresh copy).

       --copy-dest=DIR
              This  option  behaves like --compare-dest, but rsync will also copy unchanged files
              found in DIR to the destination directory using a local copy.  This is  useful  for
              doing  transfers to a new destination while leaving existing files intact, and then
              doing a flash-cutover when all files have been successfully transferred.

              Multiple --copy-dest directories may be provided, which will cause rsync to  search
              the  list in the order specified for an unchanged file.  If a match is not found, a
              basis file from one of the DIRs will be selected to try to speed up the transfer.

              If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.   See  also
              --compare-dest and --link-dest.

       --link-dest=DIR
              This  option behaves like --copy-dest, but unchanged files are hard linked from DIR
              to the destination directory.   The  files  must  be  identical  in  all  preserved
              attributes  (e.g.  permissions,  possibly  ownership)  in order for the files to be
              linked together.  An example:

                  rsync -av --link-dest=$PWD/prior_dir host:src_dir/ new_dir/

              If files aren't  linking,  double-check  their  attributes.   Also  check  if  some
              attributes  are getting forced outside of rsync's control, such a mount option that
              squishes root to a single user, or mounts a removable drive with generic  ownership
              (such as OS X's "Ignore ownership on this volume" option).

              Beginning in version 2.6.4, multiple --link-dest directories may be provided, which
              will cause rsync to search the list in the  order  specified  for  an  exact  match
              (there  is  a limit of 20 such directories).  If a match is found that differs only
              in attributes, a local copy is made and the attributes updated.  If a match is  not
              found,  a  basis  file from one of the DIRs will be selected to try to speed up the
              transfer.

              This option works best  when  copying  into  an  empty  destination  hierarchy,  as
              existing  files  may  get  their  attributes tweaked, and that can affect alternate
              destination files via hard-links.   Also,  itemizing  of  changes  can  get  a  bit
              muddled.   Note  that  prior  to  version 3.1.0, an alternate-directory exact match
              would never be found (nor linked into the  destination)  when  a  destination  file
              already exists.

              Note  that  if you combine this option with --ignore-times, rsync will not link any
              files together because it only links identical files together as a  substitute  for
              transferring the file, never as an additional check after the file is updated.

              If  DIR  is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.  See also
              --compare-dest and --copy-dest.

              Note that rsync versions prior to 2.6.1 had a bug that  could  prevent  --link-dest
              from  working  properly  for  a  non-super-user when --owner (-o) was specified (or
              implied).  You can work-around this bug by avoiding the -o option (or using --no-o)
              when sending to an old rsync.

       --compress, -z
              With  this  option, rsync compresses the file data as it is sent to the destination
              machine, which reduces the amount of data being transmitted --  something  that  is
              useful over a slow connection.

              Rsync  supports multiple compression methods and will choose one for you unless you
              force the choice using the --compress-choice (--zc) option.

              Run rsync --version to see the default compress list compiled into your version.

              When both sides of the transfer  are  at  least  3.2.0,  rsync  chooses  the  first
              algorithm  in  the  client's  list  of choices that is also in the server's list of
              choices.  If no common compress choice is found, rsync exits with an error.  If the
              remote  rsync is too old to support checksum negotiation, its list is assumed to be
              "zlib".

              The  default  order  can  be  customized  by  setting  the   environment   variable
              RSYNC_COMPRESS_LIST  to a space-separated list of acceptable compression names.  If
              the string contains a "&" character, it is separated  into  the  "client  string  &
              server  string",  otherwise  the  same  string  applies to both.  If the string (or
              string portion) contains no non-whitespace characters, the default compress list is
              used.   Any  unknown compression names are discarded from the list, but a list with
              only invalid names results in a failed negotiation.

              There are some older rsync versions that were configured to reject a -z option  and
              require  the  use  of -zz because their compression library was not compatible with
              the default zlib compression method.  You can usually ignore this weirdness  unless
              the rsync server complains and tells you to specify -zz.

       --compress-choice=STR, --zc=STR
              This  option  can  be used to override the automatic negotiation of the compression
              algorithm that occurs when --compress  is  used.   The  option  implies  --compress
              unless "none" was specified, which instead implies --no-compress.

              The compression options that you may be able to use are:

              o      zstd

              o      lz4

              o      zlibx

              o      zlib

              o      none

              Run  rsync --version  to  see  the default compress list compiled into your version
              (which may differ from the list above).

              Note that if you see an error  about  an  option  named  --old-compress  or  --new-
              compress,  this  is  rsync trying to send the --compress-choice=zlib or --compress-
              choice=zlibx option in  a  backward-compatible  manner  that  more  rsync  versions
              understand.   This  error indicates that the older rsync version on the server will
              not allow you to force the compression type.

              Note that the "zlibx" compression algorithm  is  just  the  "zlib"  algorithm  with
              matched  data  excluded  from  the  compression  stream  (to  try  to  make it more
              compatible with an external zlib implementation).

       --compress-level=NUM, --zl=NUM
              Explicitly set the compression level to use (see --compress, -z) instead of letting
              it  default.  The --compress option is implied as long as the level chosen is not a
              "don't compress" level for the compression algorithm that is in effect  (e.g.  zlib
              compression treats level 0 as "off").

              The  level  values  vary  depending  on the checksum in effect.  Because rsync will
              negotiate a checksum choice by default (when the remote rsync is  new  enough),  it
              can  be  good  to combine this option with a --compress-choice (--zc) option unless
              you're sure of the choice in effect.  For example:

                  rsync -aiv --zc=zstd --zl=22 host:src/ dest/

              For zlib & zlibx compression the valid values are from 1 to  9  with  6  being  the
              default.   Specifying  --zl=0 turns compression off, and specifying --zl=-1 chooses
              the default level of 6.

              For zstd compression the valid values are from -131072  to  22  with  3  being  the
              default. Specifying 0 chooses the default of 3.

              For lz4 compression there are no levels, so the value is always 0.

              If  you specify a too-large or too-small value, the number is silently limited to a
              valid value.  This allows you to  specify  something  like  --zl=999999999  and  be
              assured  that  you'll  end  up  with  the  maximum compression level no matter what
              algorithm was chosen.

              If you want to know the compression level that is in effect,  specify  --debug=nstr
              to   see  the  "negotiated  string"  results.   This  will  report  something  like
              "Client compress: zstd (level 3)" (along with the checksum choice in effect).

       --skip-compress=LIST
              NOTE: no compression method currently supports  per-file  compression  changes,  so
              this option has no effect.

              Override  the  list of file suffixes that will be compressed as little as possible.
              Rsync sets the compression level on a per-file basis based on  the  file's  suffix.
              If  the  compression  algorithm  has an "off" level, then no compression occurs for
              those files.  Other algorithms that support changing the streaming level on-the-fly
              will  have  the  level minimized to reduces the CPU usage as much as possible for a
              matching file.

              The LIST should be one or more file suffixes (without the dot) separated by slashes
              (/).  You may specify an empty string to indicate that no files should be skipped.

              Simple  character-class  matching  is  supported:  each  must  consist of a list of
              letters inside the square brackets (e.g. no special classes, such  as  "[:alpha:]",
              are supported, and '-' has no special meaning).

              The characters asterisk (*) and question-mark (?) have no special meaning.

              Here's an example that specifies 6 suffixes to skip (since 1 of the 5 rules matches
              2 suffixes):

                  --skip-compress=gz/jpg/mp[34]/7z/bz2

              The default file suffixes in the skip-compress list in this version of rsync are:

                  3g2 3gp 7z aac ace apk avi bz2 deb dmg ear f4v flac flv gpg gz iso jar jpeg jpg
                  lrz  lz  lz4  lzma lzo m1a m1v m2a m2ts m2v m4a m4b m4p m4r m4v mka mkv mov mp1
                  mp2 mp3 mp4 mpa mpeg mpg mpv mts odb odf odg odi odm odp ods odt  oga  ogg  ogm
                  ogv  ogx  opus  otg oth otp ots ott oxt png qt rar rpm rz rzip spx squashfs sxc
                  sxd sxg sxm sxw sz tbz tbz2 tgz tlz ts txz tzo vob war webm webp xz z zip zst

              This list will be replaced by your --skip-compress list in all but one situation: a
              copy  from  a  daemon  rsync  will  add  your  skipped suffixes to its list of non-
              compressing files (and its list may be configured to a different default).

       --numeric-ids
              With this option rsync will transfer numeric group and user IDs rather  than  using
              user and group names and mapping them at both ends.

              By default rsync will use the username and groupname to determine what ownership to
              give files.  The special uid 0 and  the  special  group  0  are  never  mapped  via
              user/group names even if the --numeric-ids option is not specified.

              If  a  user  or  group  has  no name on the source system or it has no match on the
              destination system, then the numeric ID from the source  system  is  used  instead.
              See also the use chroot setting in the rsyncd.conf manpage for some comments on how
              the chroot setting affects rsync's ability to look up the names of  the  users  and
              groups and what you can do about it.

       --usermap=STRING, --groupmap=STRING
              These  options allow you to specify users and groups that should be mapped to other
              values by the receiving side.  The STRING is one or more FROM:TO  pairs  of  values
              separated by commas.  Any matching FROM value from the sender is replaced with a TO
              value from the receiver.  You may specify usernames or user IDs for the FROM and TO
              values,  and  the  FROM value may also be a wild-card string, which will be matched
              against the sender's names (wild-cards do NOT match against ID numbers, though  see
              below  for  why  a  '*' matches everything).  You may instead specify a range of ID
              numbers via an inclusive range: LOW-HIGH.  For example:

                  --usermap=0-99:nobody,wayne:admin,*:normal --groupmap=usr:1,1:usr

              The first match in the list is the one that is used.  You should specify  all  your
              user mappings using a single --usermap option, and/or all your group mappings using
              a single --groupmap option.

              Note that the sender's name for the 0 user and group are  not  transmitted  to  the
              receiver,  so  you  should either match these values using a 0, or use the names in
              effect on the receiving side (typically "root").  All other FROM names match  those
              in use on the sending side.  All TO names match those in use on the receiving side.

              Any  IDs that do not have a name on the sending side are treated as having an empty
              name for the purpose of matching.  This allows them to be  matched  via  a  "*"  or
              using an empty name.  For instance:

                  --usermap=:nobody --groupmap=*:nobody

              When  the  --numeric-ids option is used, the sender does not send any names, so all
              the IDs are treated as having an empty name.  This means  that  you  will  need  to
              specify  numeric  FROM  values  if  you want to map these nameless IDs to different
              values.

              For the --usermap option to work, the receiver will need to be running as a  super-
              user (see also the --super and --fake-super options).  For the --groupmap option to
              work, the receiver will need to have permissions to set that group.

              Starting with rsync 3.2.4, the --usermap option implies  the  --owner  (-o)  option
              while  the  --groupmap option implies the --group (-g) option (since rsync needs to
              have those options enabled for the mapping options to work).

              An older rsync client may need to use  -s  to  avoid  a  complaint  about  wildcard
              characters, but a modern rsync handles this automatically.

       --chown=USER:GROUP
              This  option  forces  all  files  to  be owned by USER with group GROUP.  This is a
              simpler interface than using --usermap & --groupmap directly, but it is implemented
              using  those  options  internally  so  they cannot be mixed.  If either the USER or
              GROUP is empty, no mapping for the omitted user/group  will  occur.   If  GROUP  is
              empty,  the  trailing  colon  may be omitted, but if USER is empty, a leading colon
              must be supplied.

              If  you  specify  "--chown=foo:bar",  this  is  exactly  the  same  as   specifying
              "--usermap=*:foo --groupmap=*:bar",  only easier (and with the same implied --owner
              and/or --group options).

              An older rsync client may need to use  -s  to  avoid  a  complaint  about  wildcard
              characters, but a modern rsync handles this automatically.

       --timeout=SECONDS
              This  option  allows  you  to  set a maximum I/O timeout in seconds.  If no data is
              transferred for the specified time then rsync will exit.  The default is  0,  which
              means no timeout.

       --contimeout=SECONDS
              This  option  allows  you  to  set  the amount of time that rsync will wait for its
              connection to an rsync daemon to succeed.  If the timeout is reached,  rsync  exits
              with an error.

       --address=ADDRESS
              By  default  rsync  will  bind  to the wildcard address when connecting to an rsync
              daemon.  The --address option allows you to  specify  a  specific  IP  address  (or
              hostname) to bind to.

              See also the daemon version of the --address option.

       --port=PORT
              This  specifies an alternate TCP port number to use rather than the default of 873.
              This is only needed if you are using the double-colon (::) syntax to  connect  with
              an  rsync  daemon  (since the URL syntax has a way to specify the port as a part of
              the URL).

              See also the daemon version of the --port option.

       --sockopts=OPTIONS
              This option can provide endless fun for people who like to tune  their  systems  to
              the  utmost  degree.   You  can  set  all  sorts  of  socket options which may make
              transfers faster (or slower!).  Read the manpage for the setsockopt()  system  call
              for  details  on some of the options you may be able to set.  By default no special
              socket options are set.  This only affects direct socket connections  to  a  remote
              rsync daemon.

              See also the daemon version of the --sockopts option.

       --blocking-io
              This  tells  rsync to use blocking I/O when launching a remote shell transport.  If
              the remote shell is either rsh or remsh, rsync  defaults  to  using  blocking  I/O,
              otherwise  it  defaults  to  using  non-blocking  I/O.  (Note that ssh prefers non-
              blocking I/O.)

       --outbuf=MODE
              This sets the output buffering mode.  The mode can be None (aka Unbuffered),  Line,
              or  Block  (aka  Full).  You may specify as little as a single letter for the mode,
              and use upper or lower case.

              The main use of this option is to change Full  buffering  to  Line  buffering  when
              rsync's output is going to a file or pipe.

       --itemize-changes, -i
              Requests  a  simple  itemized list of the changes that are being made to each file,
              including attribute changes.   This  is  exactly  the  same  as  specifying  --out-
              format='%i %n%L'.   If  you repeat the option, unchanged files will also be output,
              but only if the receiving rsync is at least version 2.6.7 (you  can  use  -vv  with
              older  versions  of  rsync,  but  that  also  turns  on the output of other verbose
              messages).

              The "%i" escape has a cryptic output that is 11 letters long.  The  general  format
              is  like  the  string  YXcstpoguax, where Y is replaced by the type of update being
              done, X is replaced by the file-type, and the other  letters  represent  attributes
              that may be output if they are being modified.

              The update types that replace the Y are as follows:

              o      A < means that a file is being transferred to the remote host (sent).

              o      A > means that a file is being transferred to the local host (received).

              o      A  c  means  that a local change/creation is occurring for the item (such as
                     the creation of a directory or the changing of a symlink, etc.).

              o      A h means that the item is a hard link to  another  item  (requires  --hard-
                     links).

              o      A  .  means  that  the  item  is  not  being  updated  (though it might have
                     attributes that are being modified).

              o      A * means that the rest of the itemized-output area contains a message (e.g.
                     "deleting").

              The  file-types that replace the X are: f for a file, a d for a directory, an L for
              a symlink, a D for a device, and a S for a special file  (e.g.  named  sockets  and
              fifos).

              The  other  letters  in  the  string  indicate  if some attributes of the file have
              changed, as follows:

              o      "." - the attribute is unchanged.

              o      "+" - the file is newly created.

              o      " " - all the attributes are unchanged (all dots turn to spaces).

              o      "?" - the change is unknown (when the remote rsync is old).

              o      A letter indicates an attribute is being updated.

              The attribute that is associated with each letter is as follows:

              o      A c means either that a regular file  has  a  different  checksum  (requires
                     --checksum)  or that a symlink, device, or special file has a changed value.
                     Note that if you are sending files to an rsync prior to 3.0.1,  this  change
                     flag will be present only for checksum-differing regular files.

              o      A s means the size of a regular file is different and will be updated by the
                     file transfer.

              o      A t means the modification time is different and is  being  updated  to  the
                     sender's  value  (requires --times).  An alternate value of T means that the
                     modification time will be set to the transfer time,  which  happens  when  a
                     file/symlink/device is updated without --times and when a symlink is changed
                     and the receiver can't set its  time.  (Note:  when  using  an  rsync  3.0.0
                     client,  you  might  see  the s flag combined with t instead of the proper T
                     flag for this time-setting failure.)

              o      A p means the permissions  are  different  and  are  being  updated  to  the
                     sender's value (requires --perms).

              o      An o means the owner is different and is being updated to the sender's value
                     (requires --owner and super-user privileges).

              o      A g means the group is different and is being updated to the sender's  value
                     (requires --group and the authority to set the group).

              o

                     o      A u|n|b indicates the following information:

                            u   means  the access (use) time is different and is being updated to
                            the sender's value (requires --atimes)

                     o      n means the create time (newness) is different and is  being  updated
                            to the sender's value (requires --crtimes)

                     o      b means that both the access and create times are being updated

              o      The a means that the ACL information is being changed.

              o      The x means that the extended attribute information is being changed.

              One  other output is possible: when deleting files, the "%i" will output the string
              "*deleting" for each item that is being removed (assuming that you are talking to a
              recent  enough rsync that it logs deletions instead of outputting them as a verbose
              message).

       --out-format=FORMAT
              This allows you to specify exactly what the rsync client outputs to the user  on  a
              per-update basis.  The format is a text string containing embedded single-character
              escape sequences prefixed with a percent (%) character.  A default format of "%n%L"
              is  assumed  if either --info=name or -v is specified (this tells you just the name
              of the file and, if the item is a link, where it points).  For a full list  of  the
              possible escape characters, see the log format setting in the rsyncd.conf manpage.

              Specifying  the  --out-format  option  implies  the  --info=name option, which will
              mention each file, dir, etc. that gets updated in a significant way (a  transferred
              file,  a  recreated  symlink/device,  or a touched directory).  In addition, if the
              itemize-changes escape (%i) is included in  the  string  (e.g.  if  the  --itemize-
              changes  option  was used), the logging of names increases to mention any item that
              is changed in any way (as long as the receiving side is at least 2.6.4).   See  the
              --itemize-changes option for a description of the output of "%i".

              Rsync  will  output  the out-format string prior to a file's transfer unless one of
              the transfer-statistic escapes is requested, in which case the logging is  done  at
              the end of the file's transfer.  When this late logging is in effect and --progress
              is also specified, rsync will also output the name of the  file  being  transferred
              prior to its progress information (followed, of course, by the out-format output).

       --log-file=FILE
              This option causes rsync to log what it is doing to a file.  This is similar to the
              logging that a daemon does, but can be requested for the  client  side  and/or  the
              server  side  of  a non-daemon transfer.  If specified as a client option, transfer
              logging will be enabled with a default format of "%i %n%L".   See  the  --log-file-
              format option if you wish to override this.

              Here's an example command that requests the remote side to log what is happening:

                  rsync -av --remote-option=--log-file=/tmp/rlog src/ dest/

              This is very useful if you need to debug why a connection is closing unexpectedly.

              See also the daemon version of the --log-file option.

       --log-file-format=FORMAT
              This  allows  you  to  specify exactly what per-update logging is put into the file
              specified by the --log-file option (which must also be specified for this option to
              have  any  effect).   If  you  specify  an  empty string, updated files will not be
              mentioned in the log file.  For a list of the possible escape characters,  see  the
              log format setting in the rsyncd.conf manpage.

              The  default  FORMAT  used if --log-file is specified and this option is not is '%i
              %n%L'.

              See also the daemon version of the --log-file-format option.

       --stats
              This tells rsync to print a  verbose  set  of  statistics  on  the  file  transfer,
              allowing  you  to  tell  how effective rsync's delta-transfer algorithm is for your
              data.  This option is equivalent to --info=stats2  if  combined  with  0  or  1  -v
              options, or --info=stats3 if combined with 2 or more -v options.

              The current statistics are as follows:

              o      Number of files  is  the  count of all "files" (in the generic sense), which
                     includes directories, symlinks, etc.  The total count will be followed by  a
                     list  of counts by filetype (if the total is non-zero).  For example: "(reg:
                     5, dir: 3, link: 2, dev: 1, special: 1)" lists the totals for regular files,
                     directories, symlinks, devices, and special files.  If any of value is 0, it
                     is completely omitted from the list.

              o      Number of created files is the count of how  many  "files"  (generic  sense)
                     were created (as opposed to updated).  The total count will be followed by a
                     list of counts by filetype (if the total is non-zero).

              o      Number of deleted files is the count of how  many  "files"  (generic  sense)
                     were  deleted.   The  total  count  will  be followed by a list of counts by
                     filetype (if the total is non-zero).  Note that this line is only output  if
                     deletions  are in effect, and only if protocol 31 is being used (the default
                     for rsync 3.1.x).

              o      Number of regular files transferred is the count of normal files  that  were
                     updated  via  rsync's delta-transfer algorithm, which does not include dirs,
                     symlinks, etc.  Note that rsync 3.1.0 added the  word  "regular"  into  this
                     heading.

              o      Total file size  is  the  total sum of all file sizes in the transfer.  This
                     does not count any size for directories or special files, but  does  include
                     the size of symlinks.

              o      Total transferred file size is the total sum of all files sizes for just the
                     transferred files.

              o      Literal data is how much unmatched file-update data we had to  send  to  the
                     receiver for it to recreate the updated files.

              o      Matched data  is  how much data the receiver got locally when recreating the
                     updated files.

              o      File list size is how big the file-list data was when the sender sent it  to
                     the receiver.  This is smaller than the in-memory size for the file list due
                     to some compressing of duplicated data when rsync sends the list.

              o      File list generation time is the number of seconds  that  the  sender  spent
                     creating  the  file  list.  This requires a modern rsync on the sending side
                     for this to be present.

              o      File list transfer time is the number  of  seconds  that  the  sender  spent
                     sending the file list to the receiver.

              o      Total bytes sent  is  the  count  of  all the bytes that rsync sent from the
                     client side to the server side.

              o      Total bytes received is the  count  of  all  non-message  bytes  that  rsync
                     received  by the client side from the server side. "Non-message" bytes means
                     that we don't count the bytes for a verbose message that the server sent  to
                     us, which makes the stats more consistent.

       --8-bit-output, -8
              This  tells  rsync to leave all high-bit characters unescaped in the output instead
              of trying to test them to see if they're valid in the current locale  and  escaping
              the  invalid  ones.   All  control  characters (but never tabs) are always escaped,
              regardless of this option's setting.

              The escape idiom that started in 2.6.7 is to output a literal backslash (\)  and  a
              hash  (#), followed by exactly 3 octal digits.  For example, a newline would output
              as "\#012".  A literal backslash that is in a filename is not escaped unless it  is
              followed by a hash and 3 digits (0-9).

       --human-readable, -h
              Output numbers in a more human-readable format.  There are 3 possible levels:

              1.     output numbers with a separator between each set of 3 digits (either a comma
                     or a period, depending on if the decimal point is represented by a period or
                     a comma).

              2.     output numbers in units of 1000 (with a character suffix for larger units --
                     see below).

              3.     output numbers in units of 1024.

              The default is human-readable level 1.  Each -h option increases the level by  one.
              You  can  take the level down to 0 (to output numbers as pure digits) by specifying
              the --no-human-readable (--no-h) option.

              The unit letters that are appended in levels 2 and 3 are: K  (kilo),  M  (mega),  G
              (giga),  T  (tera),  or P (peta).  For example, a 1234567-byte file would output as
              1.23M in level-2 (assuming that a period is your local decimal point).

              Backward compatibility note: versions of rsync prior to 3.1.0 do not support human-
              readable  level  1,  and  they  default to level 0.  Thus, specifying one or two -h
              options will behave in a comparable manner in old and new versions as long  as  you
              didn't  specify  a  --no-h option prior to one or more -h options.  See the --list-
              only option for one difference.

       --partial
              By default, rsync will delete any partially transferred file  if  the  transfer  is
              interrupted.   In  some  circumstances  it  is  more  desirable  to  keep partially
              transferred files.  Using the --partial option tells rsync to keep the partial file
              which should make a subsequent transfer of the rest of the file much faster.

       --partial-dir=DIR
              This  option modifies the behavior of the --partial option while also implying that
              it be enabled.  This enhanced partial-file method puts  any  partially  transferred
              files  into  the  specified  DIR  instead  of  writing  the partial file out to the
              destination file.  On the next transfer, rsync will use a file found in this dir as
              data  to  speed  up  the resumption of the transfer and then delete it after it has
              served its purpose.

              Note that if --whole-file is specified (or implied), any partial-dir files that are
              found  for  a  file  that  is  being updated will simply be removed (since rsync is
              sending files without using rsync's delta-transfer algorithm).

              Rsync will create the DIR if it is missing, but just the last dir -- not the  whole
              path.   This  makes  it easy to use a relative path (such as "--partial-dir=.rsync-
              partial") to have rsync create the  partial-directory  in  the  destination  file's
              directory  when  it  is  needed,  and then remove it again when the partial file is
              deleted.  Note that this directory removal is only done for a relative pathname, as
              it  is  expected  that  an  absolute  path  is  to a directory that is reserved for
              partial-dir work.

              If the partial-dir value is not an absolute path, rsync will add an exclude rule at
              the  end  of  all  your  existing  excludes.   This will prevent the sending of any
              partial-dir files that may exist on the sending side, and  will  also  prevent  the
              untimely  deletion  of  partial-dir  items  on the receiving side.  An example: the
              above --partial-dir option would add the equivalent of this "perishable" exclude at
              the end of any other filter rules: -f '-p .rsync-partial/'

              If  you  are  supplying  your  own  exclude  rules,  you  may  need to add your own
              exclude/hide/protect rule for the partial-dir because:

              1.     the auto-added rule may be ineffective at the end of your other rules, or

              2.     you may wish to override rsync's exclude choice.

              For instance, if you want to make rsync clean-up any  left-over  partial-dirs  that
              may  be  lying  around,  you  should specify --delete-after and add a "risk" filter
              rule, e.g.  -f 'R .rsync-partial/'. Avoid using --delete-before or  --delete-during
              unless you don't need rsync to use any of the left-over partial-dir data during the
              current run.

              IMPORTANT: the --partial-dir should not be writable by  other  users  or  it  is  a
              security risk!  E.g. AVOID "/tmp"!

              You  can also set the partial-dir value the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable.
              Setting this in the environment does not force --partial to be enabled, but  rather
              it  affects  where  partial  files  go  when --partial is specified.  For instance,
              instead of using --partial-dir=.rsync-tmp along  with  --progress,  you  could  set
              RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR=.rsync-tmp in your environment and then use the -P option to turn
              on the use of the .rsync-tmp dir for partial transfers.  The only  times  that  the
              --partial option does not look for this environment value are:

              1.     when --inplace was specified (since --inplace conflicts with --partial-dir),
                     and

              2.     when --delay-updates was specified (see below).

              When a modern rsync resumes the transfer of a file in the partial-dir, that partial
              file  is  now updated in-place instead of creating yet another tmp-file copy (so it
              maxes out at dest + tmp instead of dest + partial + tmp).  This requires both  ends
              of the transfer to be at least version 3.2.0.

              For  the  purposes  of  the daemon-config's "refuse options" setting, --partial-dir
              does not imply --partial.  This is so that a refusal of the --partial option can be
              used  to  disallow  the  overwriting  of destination files with a partial transfer,
              while still allowing the safer idiom provided by --partial-dir.

       --delay-updates
              This option puts the temporary file from each updated file into a holding directory
              until  the  end of the transfer, at which time all the files are renamed into place
              in rapid succession.  This attempts to make the updating of the files a little more
              atomic.   By  default  the  files  are placed into a directory named .~tmp~ in each
              file's destination directory, but if you've  specified  the  --partial-dir  option,
              that directory will be used instead.  See the comments in the --partial-dir section
              for a discussion of how this .~tmp~ dir will be excluded  from  the  transfer,  and
              what  you  can  do if you want rsync to cleanup old .~tmp~ dirs that might be lying
              around.  Conflicts with --inplace and --append.

              This option implies --no-inc-recursive since it needs the full file list in  memory
              in order to be able to iterate over it at the end.

              This  option  uses more memory on the receiving side (one bit per file transferred)
              and also requires enough  free  disk  space  on  the  receiving  side  to  hold  an
              additional  copy  of  all  the updated files.  Note also that you should not use an
              absolute path to --partial-dir unless:

              1.     there is no chance of any of the files in the transfer having the same  name
                     (since all the updated files will be put into a single directory if the path
                     is absolute), and

              2.     there are no mount points in the hierarchy (since the delayed  updates  will
                     fail if they can't be renamed into place).

              See  also  the  "atomic-rsync"  python script in the "support" subdir for an update
              algorithm that is even more atomic (it uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of
              files).

       --prune-empty-dirs, -m
              This  option  tells  the  receiving  rsync to get rid of empty directories from the
              file-list, including nested directories that have no non-directory children.   This
              is  useful  for  avoiding  the  creation of a bunch of useless directories when the
              sending   rsync   is   recursively   scanning   a   hierarchy   of   files    using
              include/exclude/filter rules.

              This option can still leave empty directories on the receiving side if you make use
              of TRANSFER_RULES.

              Because the file-list is actually being  pruned,  this  option  also  affects  what
              directories  get  deleted  when  a  delete  is  active.  However, keep in mind that
              excluded files and directories can prevent existing items from being deleted due to
              an  exclude  both  hiding  source  files and protecting destination files.  See the
              perishable filter-rule option for how to avoid this.

              You can prevent the pruning of certain empty  directories  from  the  file-list  by
              using  a  global "protect" filter.  For instance, this option would ensure that the
              directory "emptydir" was kept in the file-list:

                  --filter 'protect emptydir/'

              Here's an example that copies all .pdf files in  a  hierarchy,  only  creating  the
              necessary  destination  directories  to  hold  the .pdf files, and ensures that any
              superfluous files and directories in the destination are  removed  (note  the  hide
              filter of non-directories being used instead of an exclude):

                  rsync -avm --del --include='*.pdf' -f 'hide,! */' src/ dest

              If  you  didn't want to remove superfluous destination files, the more time-honored
              options of --include='*/' --exclude='*' would work fine in place of the hide-filter
              (if that is more natural to you).

       --progress
              This  option tells rsync to print information showing the progress of the transfer.
              This gives a bored user something to watch.  With a modern rsync this is  the  same
              as specifying --info=flist2,name,progress, but any user-supplied settings for those
              info flags takes precedence (e.g.  --info=flist0 --progress).

              While rsync is transferring a regular file, it updates a progress line  that  looks
              like this:

                  782448  63%  110.64kB/s    0:00:04

              In this example, the receiver has reconstructed 782448 bytes or 63% of the sender's
              file, which is being reconstructed at a rate of 110.64 kilobytes  per  second,  and
              the  transfer  will finish in 4 seconds if the current rate is maintained until the
              end.

              These statistics can be misleading if rsync's delta-transfer algorithm is  in  use.
              For example, if the sender's file consists of the basis file followed by additional
              data, the reported rate will probably drop dramatically when the receiver  gets  to
              the  literal  data,  and the transfer will probably take much longer to finish than
              the receiver estimated as it was finishing the matched part of the file.

              When the file transfer finishes, rsync replaces the progress line  with  a  summary
              line that looks like this:

                  1,238,099 100%  146.38kB/s    0:00:08  (xfr#5, to-chk=169/396)

              In  this  example,  the file was 1,238,099 bytes long in total, the average rate of
              transfer for the whole file was 146.38 kilobytes per second over the 8 seconds that
              it  took  to complete, it was the 5th transfer of a regular file during the current
              rsync session, and there are 169 more files for the receiver to check  (to  see  if
              they are up-to-date or not) remaining out of the 396 total files in the file-list.

              In an incremental recursion scan, rsync won't know the total number of files in the
              file-list until it reaches the ends of the scan, but since it  starts  to  transfer
              files  during  the  scan,  it  will  display  a  line  with  the text "ir-chk" (for
              incremental recursion check) instead of "to-chk" until the point that it knows  the
              full  size  of  the  list,  at which point it will switch to using "to-chk".  Thus,
              seeing "ir-chk" lets you know that the total count of files in  the  file  list  is
              still  going  to  increase (and each time it does, the count of files left to check
              will increase by the number of the files added to the list).

       -P     The -P option is equivalent to "--partial --progress".  Its purpose is to  make  it
              much  easier  to  specify  these  two  options  for  a  long  transfer  that may be
              interrupted.

              There is also a --info=progress2 option that outputs statistics based on the  whole
              transfer,  rather  than  individual  files.   Use  this  flag  without outputting a
              filename (e.g. avoid -v or specify  --info=name0)  if  you  want  to  see  how  the
              transfer is doing without scrolling the screen with a lot of names. (You don't need
              to specify the --progress option in order to use --info=progress2.)

              Finally, you can get an instant progress report by sending rsync a signal of either
              SIGINFO  or  SIGVTALRM.   On BSD systems, a SIGINFO is generated by typing a Ctrl+T
              (Linux doesn't currently support a SIGINFO signal).  When the  client-side  process
              receives  one  of  those signals, it sets a flag to output a single progress report
              which is output when the current file transfer finishes (so it may  take  a  little
              time if a big file is being handled when the signal arrives).  A filename is output
              (if needed) followed by the --info=progress2 format of progress info.  If you don't
              know which of the 3 rsync processes is the client process, it's OK to signal all of
              them (since the non-client processes ignore the signal).

              CAUTION: sending SIGVTALRM to an older rsync (pre-3.2.0) will kill it.

       --password-file=FILE
              This option allows you to provide a password for accessing an rsync  daemon  via  a
              file or via standard input if FILE is -.  The file should contain just the password
              on the first line (all other lines are ignored).  Rsync will exit with an error  if
              FILE is world readable or if a root-run rsync command finds a non-root-owned file.

              This  option does not supply a password to a remote shell transport such as ssh; to
              learn how to do that, consult the remote shell's documentation.  When accessing  an
              rsync  daemon  using  a  remote shell as the transport, this option only comes into
              effect after the remote shell finishes its authentication (i.e. if  you  have  also
              specified a password in the daemon's config file).

       --early-input=FILE
              This option allows rsync to send up to 5K of data to the "early exec" script on its
              stdin.  One possible use of this data is to give the script a secret  that  can  be
              used  to  mount an encrypted filesystem (which you should unmount in the the "post-
              xfer exec" script).

              The daemon must be at least version 3.2.1.

       --list-only
              This option will cause the source files to be listed instead of transferred.   This
              option is inferred if there is a single source arg and no destination specified, so
              its main uses are:

              1.     to turn a copy command that includes a destination arg into  a  file-listing
                     command, or

              2.     to  be  able  to specify more than one source arg.  Note: be sure to include
                     the destination.

              CAUTION: keep in mind that a source arg with a wild-card is expanded by  the  shell
              into multiple args, so it is never safe to try to specify a single wild-card arg to
              try to infer this option. A safe example is:

                  rsync -av --list-only foo* dest/

              This option always uses an output format that looks similar to this:

                  drwxrwxr-x          4,096 2022/09/30 12:53:11 support
                  -rw-rw-r--             80 2005/01/11 10:37:37 support/Makefile

              The only option that affects this output  style  is  (as  of  3.1.0)  the  --human-
              readable  (-h)  option.   The  default is to output sizes as byte counts with digit
              separators (in a 14-character-width column).  Specifying at  least  one  -h  option
              makes  the  sizes output with unit suffixes.  If you want old-style bytecount sizes
              without digit separators (and an 11-character-width column) use --no-h.

              Compatibility note: when requesting a remote listing of files from an rsync that is
              version  2.6.3  or older, you may encounter an error if you ask for a non-recursive
              listing.  This is because a file listing implies the --dirs option w/o --recursive,
              and older rsyncs don't have that option.  To avoid this problem, either specify the
              --no-dirs option (if you don't need to expand a directory's content),  or  turn  on
              recursion and exclude the content of subdirectories: -r --exclude='/*/*'.

       --bwlimit=RATE
              This  option allows you to specify the maximum transfer rate for the data sent over
              the socket, specified in units per second.  The RATE value can be suffixed  with  a
              string  to  indicate  a  size  multiplier,  and  may  be  a  fractional value (e.g.
              --bwlimit=1.5m).  If no suffix is specified, the value will be  assumed  to  be  in
              units  of  1024  bytes  (as if "K" or "KiB" had been appended).  See the --max-size
              option for a description of all the available suffixes.  A value of 0 specifies  no
              limit.

              For  backward-compatibility  reasons, the rate limit will be rounded to the nearest
              KiB unit, so no rate smaller than 1024 bytes per second is possible.

              Rsync writes data over the socket in blocks, and this option both limits  the  size
              of the blocks that rsync writes, and tries to keep the average transfer rate at the
              requested limit.  Some burstiness may be seen where rsync writes  out  a  block  of
              data and then sleeps to bring the average rate into compliance.

              Due to the internal buffering of data, the --progress option may not be an accurate
              reflection on how fast the data is being sent.  This is because some files can show
              up as being rapidly sent when the data is quickly buffered, while other can show up
              as very slow when the flushing of the output buffer occurs.  This may be fixed in a
              future version.

              See also the daemon version of the --bwlimit option.

       --stop-after=MINS, (--time-limit=MINS)
              This  option  tells  rsync to stop copying when the specified number of minutes has
              elapsed.

              For maximal flexibility, rsync does not communicate this option to the remote rsync
              since  it  is  usually  enough  that one side of the connection quits as specified.
              This allows the option's use even when only one side of the connection supports it.
              You  can  tell  the  remote  side  about the time limit using --remote-option (-M),
              should the need arise.

              The --time-limit version of this option is deprecated.

       --stop-at=y-m-dTh:m
              This option tells rsync to stop copying when the specified point in time  has  been
              reached.  The date & time can be fully specified in a numeric format of year-month-
              dayThour:minute (e.g. 2000-12-31T23:59) in the local timezone.  You may  choose  to
              separate the date numbers using slashes instead of dashes.

              The  value  can  also  be  abbreviated  in  a variety of ways, such as specifying a
              2-digit year and/or leaving off various values.  In all cases, the  value  will  be
              taken to be the next possible point in time where the supplied information matches.
              If the value specifies the current time or a past time, rsync exits with an error.

              For example, "1-30" specifies the next  January  30th  (at  midnight  local  time),
              "14:00"  specifies  the  next  2  P.M.,  "1" specifies the next 1st of the month at
              midnight, "31" specifies the next month where we can stop  on  its  31st  day,  and
              ":59" specifies the next 59th minute after the hour.

              For maximal flexibility, rsync does not communicate this option to the remote rsync
              since it is usually enough that one side of  the  connection  quits  as  specified.
              This allows the option's use even when only one side of the connection supports it.
              You can tell the remote side about  the  time  limit  using  --remote-option  (-M),
              should  the  need arise.  Do keep in mind that the remote host may have a different
              default timezone than your local host.

       --fsync
              Cause the receiving side to fsync each finished  file.   This  may  slow  down  the
              transfer, but can help to provide peace of mind when updating critical files.

       --write-batch=FILE
              Record  a  file  that  can  later  be applied to another identical destination with
              --read-batch.  See the "BATCH MODE" section for details, and also the --only-write-
              batch option.

              This  option  overrides  the  negotiated  checksum  &  compress  lists  and  always
              negotiates a choice based on old-school md5/md4/zlib choices.  If you want  a  more
              modern  choice,  use  the  --checksum-choice (--cc) and/or --compress-choice (--zc)
              options.

       --only-write-batch=FILE
              Works like --write-batch, except that no updates are made on the destination system
              when  creating  the  batch.  This lets you transport the changes to the destination
              system via some other means and then apply the changes via --read-batch.

              Note that you can feel free to write the batch directly to some portable media:  if
              this  media  fills  to  capacity before the end of the transfer, you can just apply
              that partial transfer to the destination and repeat the whole process  to  get  the
              rest  of  the  changes  (as  long as you don't mind a partially updated destination
              system while the multi-update cycle is happening).

              Also note that you only save bandwidth when pushing  changes  to  a  remote  system
              because  this allows the batched data to be diverted from the sender into the batch
              file without having to flow over the wire to the receiver (when pulling, the sender
              is remote, and thus can't write the batch).

       --read-batch=FILE
              Apply  all  of  the changes stored in FILE, a file previously generated by --write-
              batch.  If FILE is -, the batch data will be read  from  standard  input.  See  the
              "BATCH MODE" section for details.

       --protocol=NUM
              Force  an  older  protocol version to be used.  This is useful for creating a batch
              file that is compatible with an older version of rsync.   For  instance,  if  rsync
              2.6.4  is being used with the --write-batch option, but rsync 2.6.3 is what will be
              used to run the --read-batch option, you should use "--protocol=28"  when  creating
              the  batch  file  to  force the older protocol version to be used in the batch file
              (assuming you can't upgrade the rsync on the reading system).

       --iconv=CONVERT_SPEC
              Rsync can convert filenames between character sets  using  this  option.   Using  a
              CONVERT_SPEC of "." tells rsync to look up the default character-set via the locale
              setting.  Alternately, you can fully specify what conversion  to  do  by  giving  a
              local  and a remote charset separated by a comma in the order --iconv=LOCAL,REMOTE,
              e.g. --iconv=utf8,iso88591.  This order ensures that the option will stay the  same
              whether  you're  pushing  or  pulling files.  Finally, you can specify either --no-
              iconv or a CONVERT_SPEC of "-" to turn off any conversion.  The default setting  of
              this  option  is  site-specific,  and  can  also  be  affected  via the RSYNC_ICONV
              environment variable.

              For a list of what charset names your local iconv library  supports,  you  can  run
              "iconv --list".

              If  you specify the --secluded-args (-s) option, rsync will translate the filenames
              you specify on the command-line that are being sent to the remote host.   See  also
              the --files-from option.

              Note  that  rsync  does  not  do any conversion of names in filter files (including
              include/exclude files).  It is up to you to ensure that you're specifying  matching
              rules  that can match on both sides of the transfer.  For instance, you can specify
              extra include/exclude rules if there are filename differences on the two sides that
              need to be accounted for.

              When  you pass an --iconv option to an rsync daemon that allows it, the daemon uses
              the charset specified in its "charset" configuration parameter  regardless  of  the
              remote  charset  you  actually  pass.   Thus, you may feel free to specify just the
              local charset for a daemon transfer (e.g.  --iconv=utf8).

       --ipv4, -4 or --ipv6, -6
              Tells rsync to prefer IPv4/IPv6 when creating sockets or running ssh.  This affects
              sockets  that  rsync  has  direct  control  over,  such as the outgoing socket when
              directly contacting an rsync daemon, as well as the forwarding  of  the  -4  or  -6
              option  to  ssh  when  rsync can deduce that ssh is being used as the remote shell.
              For other remote shells you'll need to specify the "--rsh SHELL -4" option directly
              (or whatever IPv4/IPv6 hint options it uses).

              See also the daemon version of these options.

              If  rsync  was  compiled  without  support for IPv6, the --ipv6 option will have no
              effect.  The rsync --version output will contain "no IPv6" if is the case.

       --checksum-seed=NUM
              Set the checksum seed to the integer NUM.  This 4 byte checksum seed is included in
              each  block  and  MD4 file checksum calculation (the more modern MD5 file checksums
              don't use a seed).  By default the checksum seed is generated  by  the  server  and
              defaults  to  the  current  time().  This option is used to set a specific checksum
              seed, which is useful for applications that want repeatable block checksums, or  in
              the case where the user wants a more random checksum seed.  Setting NUM to 0 causes
              rsync to use the default of time() for checksum seed.

DAEMON OPTIONS

       The options allowed when starting an rsync daemon are as follows:

       --daemon
              This tells rsync that it is to run as a daemon.  The daemon you start  running  may
              be  accessed  using  an rsync client using the host::module or rsync://host/module/
              syntax.

              If standard input is a socket then rsync will assume  that  it  is  being  run  via
              inetd,  otherwise  it will detach from the current terminal and become a background
              daemon.  The daemon will read the config file (rsyncd.conf) on each connect made by
              a client and respond to requests accordingly.

              See the rsyncd.conf(5) manpage for more details.

       --address=ADDRESS
              By  default  rsync  will bind to the wildcard address when run as a daemon with the
              --daemon option.  The --address option allows you to specify a specific IP  address
              (or  hostname) to bind to.  This makes virtual hosting possible in conjunction with
              the --config option.

              See also the address global option  in  the  rsyncd.conf  manpage  and  the  client
              version of the --address option.

       --bwlimit=RATE
              This option allows you to specify the maximum transfer rate for the data the daemon
              sends over the socket.  The client can still specify a smaller --bwlimit value, but
              no larger value will be allowed.

              See the client version of the --bwlimit option for some extra details.

       --config=FILE
              This  specifies  an  alternate config file than the default.  This is only relevant
              when --daemon is specified.  The default is /etc/rsyncd.conf unless the  daemon  is
              running  over  a remote shell program and the remote user is not the super-user; in
              that case the default is rsyncd.conf in the current directory (typically $HOME).

       --dparam=OVERRIDE, -M
              This option can be used to set a daemon-config parameter when starting up rsync  in
              daemon  mode.   It  is  equivalent to adding the parameter at the end of the global
              settings prior to the first  module's  definition.   The  parameter  names  can  be
              specified without spaces, if you so desire.  For instance:

                  rsync --daemon -M pidfile=/path/rsync.pid

       --no-detach
              When  running  as  a  daemon,  this option instructs rsync to not detach itself and
              become a background process.  This option is required when running as a service  on
              Cygwin,  and  may  also  be  useful  when  rsync is supervised by a program such as
              daemontools or AIX's System Resource Controller.  --no-detach is  also  recommended
              when rsync is run under a debugger.  This option has no effect if rsync is run from
              inetd or sshd.

       --port=PORT
              This specifies an alternate TCP port number for the daemon to listen on rather than
              the default of 873.

              See also the client version of the --port option and the port global setting in the
              rsyncd.conf manpage.

       --log-file=FILE
              This option tells the rsync daemon to use the given log-file name instead of  using
              the "log file" setting in the config file.

              See also the client version of the --log-file option.

       --log-file-format=FORMAT
              This  option tells the rsync daemon to use the given FORMAT string instead of using
              the "log format" setting in the config file.  It  also  enables  "transfer logging"
              unless the string is empty, in which case transfer logging is turned off.

              See also the client version of the --log-file-format option.

       --sockopts
              This  overrides the socket options setting in the rsyncd.conf file and has the same
              syntax.

              See also the client version of the --sockopts option.

       --verbose, -v
              This option increases the amount of information the daemon logs during its  startup
              phase.   After the client connects, the daemon's verbosity level will be controlled
              by the options that the client used and the "max verbosity" setting in the module's
              config section.

              See also the client version of the --verbose option.

       --ipv4, -4 or --ipv6, -6
              Tells  rsync  to prefer IPv4/IPv6 when creating the incoming sockets that the rsync
              daemon will use to listen for connections.  One of these options may be required in
              older  versions  of  Linux  to work around an IPv6 bug in the kernel (if you see an
              "address already in use" error when nothing else is using the port, try  specifying
              --ipv6 or --ipv4 when starting the daemon).

              See also the client version of these options.

              If  rsync  was  compiled  without  support for IPv6, the --ipv6 option will have no
              effect.  The rsync --version output will contain "no IPv6" if is the case.

       --help, -h
              When specified after --daemon, print a  short  help  page  describing  the  options
              available for starting an rsync daemon.

FILTER RULES

       The filter rules allow for custom control of several aspects of how files are handled:

       o      Control  which  files  the  sending side puts into the file list that describes the
              transfer hierarchy

       o      Control which files the receiving side protects from deletion when the file is  not
              in the sender's file list

       o      Control which extended attribute names are skipped when copying xattrs

       The  rules  are either directly specified via option arguments or they can be read in from
       one or more files.  The filter-rule files can even be a part of  the  hierarchy  of  files
       being copied, affecting different parts of the tree in different ways.

   SIMPLE INCLUDE/EXCLUDE RULES
       We  will  first  cover  the  basics  of  how include & exclude rules affect what files are
       transferred, ignoring any deletion side-effects.  Filter rules mainly affect the  contents
       of  directories  that rsync is "recursing" into, but they can also affect a top-level item
       in the transfer that was specified as a argument.

       The default for any unmatched file/dir is for it to be included  in  the  transfer,  which
       puts  the  file/dir into the sender's file list.  The use of an exclude rule causes one or
       more matching files/dirs to be left out of the sender's file list.  An include rule can be
       used to limit the effect of an exclude rule that is matching too many files.

       The  order  of  the rules is important because the first rule that matches is the one that
       takes effect.  Thus, if an early rule excludes a file, no include rule that comes after it
       can  have any effect. This means that you must place any include overrides somewhere prior
       to the exclude that it is intended to limit.

       When a directory is excluded, all its contents and sub-contents are  also  excluded.   The
       sender  doesn't  scan through any of it at all, which can save a lot of time when skipping
       large unneeded sub-trees.

       It is also important to understand that the include/exclude rules  are  applied  to  every
       file  and directory that the sender is recursing into. Thus, if you want a particular deep
       file to be included, you have to make sure that none  of  the  directories  that  must  be
       traversed  on  the  way  down  to  that  file  are excluded or else the file will never be
       discovered to be included. As an example,  if  the  directory  "a/path"  was  given  as  a
       transfer  argument and you want to ensure that the file "a/path/down/deep/wanted.txt" is a
       part of the  transfer,  then  the  sender  must  not  exclude  the  directories  "a/path",
       "a/path/down", or "a/path/down/deep" as it makes it way scanning through the file tree.

       When  you  are  working  on  the rules, it can be helpful to ask rsync to tell you what is
       being excluded/included and  why.   Specifying  --debug=FILTER  or  (when  pulling  files)
       -M--debug=FILTER  turns  on  level  1  of  the FILTER debug information that will output a
       message any time that a file or directory is  included  or  excluded  and  which  rule  it
       matched.   Beginning  in 3.2.4 it will also warn if a filter rule has trailing whitespace,
       since an exclude of "foo " (with a trailing space) will not exclude a file named "foo".

       Exclude and include rules can specify wildcard PATTERN MATCHING RULES  (similar  to  shell
       wildcards) that allow you to match things like a file suffix or a portion of a filename.

       A  rule  can be limited to only affecting a directory by putting a trailing slash onto the
       filename.

   SIMPLE INCLUDE/EXCLUDE EXAMPLE
       With the following file tree created on the sending side:

           mkdir x/
           touch x/file.txt
           mkdir x/y/
           touch x/y/file.txt
           touch x/y/zzz.txt
           mkdir x/z/
           touch x/z/file.txt

       Then the following rsync command will transfer the file "x/y/file.txt" and the directories
       needed to hold it, resulting in the path "/tmp/x/y/file.txt" existing on the remote host:

           rsync -ai -f'+ x/' -f'+ x/y/' -f'+ x/y/file.txt' -f'- *' x host:/tmp/

       Aside:  this  copy  could  also  have  been accomplished using the -R option (though the 2
       commands behave differently if deletions are enabled):

           rsync -aiR x/y/file.txt host:/tmp/

       The following command does not need an include of the "x" directory because it  is  not  a
       part  of  the  transfer  (note the traililng slash).  Running this command would copy just
       "/tmp/x/file.txt" because the "y" and "z" dirs get excluded:

           rsync -ai -f'+ file.txt' -f'- *' x/ host:/tmp/x/

       This command would omit the  zzz.txt  file  while  copying  "x"  and  everything  else  it
       contains:

           rsync -ai -f'- zzz.txt' x host:/tmp/

   FILTER RULES WHEN DELETING
       By  default  the  include & exclude filter rules affect both the sender (as it creates its
       file list) and the receiver (as it creates its file lists for calculating deletions).   If
       no  delete option is in effect, the receiver skips creating the delete-related file lists.
       This two-sided default can be manually overridden so that you are only  specifying  sender
       rules or receiver rules, as described in the FILTER RULES IN DEPTH section.

       When  deleting,  an exclude protects a file from being removed on the receiving side while
       an include overrides that protection (putting the file at risk of deletion).  The  default
       is for a file to be at risk -- its safety depends on it matching a corresponding file from
       the sender.

       An example of the two-sided exclude effect can be  illustrated  by  the  copying  of  a  C
       development  directory  between  2 systems.  When doing a touch-up copy, you might want to
       skip copying the built executable and the .o files (sender hide)  so  that  the  receiving
       side  can build their own and not lose any object files that are already correct (receiver
       protect).  For instance:

           rsync -ai --del -f'- *.o' -f'- cmd' src host:/dest/

       Note that using -f'-p *.o' is even better than -f'- *.o' if there is  a  chance  that  the
       directory  structure  may  have  changed.   The  "p"  modifier is discussed in FILTER RULE
       MODIFIERS.

       One final note, if your shell doesn't mind unexpanded wildcards, you  could  simplify  the
       typing  of the filter options by using an underscore in place of the space and leaving off
       the quotes.  For instance, -f -_*.o -f -_cmd (and similar) could be used  instead  of  the
       filter options above.

   FILTER RULES IN DEPTH
       Rsync  supports  old-style  include/exclude  rules  and new-style filter rules.  The older
       rules are specified using --include and  --exclude  as  well  as  the  --include-from  and
       --exclude-from.  These are limited in behavior but they don't require a "-" or "+" prefix.
       An old-style exclude rule is turned into a "- name" filter rule (with no modifiers) and an
       old-style include rule is turned into a "+ name" filter rule (with no modifiers).

       Rsync builds an ordered list of filter rules as specified on the command-line and/or read-
       in from files.  New style filter rules have the following syntax:

           RULE [PATTERN_OR_FILENAME]
           RULE,MODIFIERS [PATTERN_OR_FILENAME]

       You have your choice of using either short or long RULE names, as described below.  If you
       use  a  short-named rule, the ',' separating the RULE from the MODIFIERS is optional.  The
       PATTERN or FILENAME that follows (when present) must come after either a single  space  or
       an underscore (_). Any additional spaces and/or underscores are considered to be a part of
       the pattern name.  Here are the available rule prefixes:

       exclude, '-'
              specifies an exclude pattern that (by default) is both a hide and a protect.

       include, '+'
              specifies an include pattern that (by default) is both a show and a risk.

       merge, '.'
              specifies a merge-file on the client side to read for more rules.

       dir-merge, ':'
              specifies a per-directory merge-file.  Using this kind of filter rule requires that
              you  trust  the sending side's filter checking, so it has the side-effect mentioned
              under the --trust-sender option.

       hide, 'H'
              specifies a pattern for hiding files from the transfer.  Equivalent  to  a  sender-
              only exclude, so -f'H foo' could also be specified as -f'-s foo'.

       show, 'S'
              files  that  match the pattern are not hidden. Equivalent to a sender-only include,
              so -f'S foo' could also be specified as -f'+s foo'.

       protect, 'P'
              specifies a pattern for protecting files from deletion.  Equivalent to a  receiver-
              only exclude, so -f'P foo' could also be specified as -f'-r foo'.

       risk, 'R'
              files  that  match  the  pattern  are  not protected. Equivalent to a receiver-only
              include, so -f'R foo' could also be specified as -f'+r foo'.

       clear, '!'
              clears the current include/exclude list (takes no arg)

       When rules are being read from a file (using merge or dir-merge), empty lines are ignored,
       as  are  whole-line  comments  that  start  with a '#' (filename rules that contain a hash
       character are unaffected).

       Note also that the --filter, --include, and --exclude options take one rule/pattern  each.
       To  add  multiple ones, you can repeat the options on the command-line, use the merge-file
       syntax of the --filter option, or the --include-from / --exclude-from options.

   PATTERN MATCHING RULES
       Most of the rules mentioned above take an argument that specifies  what  the  rule  should
       match.   If  rsync  is  recursing  through  a  directory hierarchy, keep in mind that each
       pattern is matched against the name of every directory in the descent path as rsync  finds
       the filenames to send.

       The matching rules for the pattern argument take several forms:

       o      If  a  pattern  contains  a  / (not counting a trailing slash) or a "**" (which can
              match a slash), then the pattern is matched against the  full  pathname,  including
              any  leading  directories  within  the  transfer.  If the pattern doesn't contain a
              (non-trailing) / or a "**", then it is matched only against the final component  of
              the filename or pathname. For example, foo means that the final path component must
              be "foo" while foo/bar would match the last 2 elements of the path (as long as both
              elements are within the transfer).

       o      A pattern that ends with a / only matches a directory, not a regular file, symlink,
              or device.

       o      A pattern that starts with a / is anchored  to  the  start  of  the  transfer  path
              instead  of  the  end.   For  example,  /foo/**  or  /foo/bar/** match only leading
              elements in the path.  If the rule is read from a per-directory  filter  file,  the
              transfer  path  being matched will begin at the level of the filter file instead of
              the top of the transfer.  See the section on ANCHORING INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERNS for
              a  full  discussion  of  how  to  specify a pattern that matches at the root of the
              transfer.

       Rsync chooses between doing a simple string match and wildcard matching by checking if the
       pattern contains one of these three wildcard characters: '*', '?', and '[' :

       o      a '?' matches any single character except a slash (/).

       o      a '*' matches zero or more non-slash characters.

       o      a '**' matches zero or more characters, including slashes.

       o      a  '['  introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]], that must match
              one character.

       o      a trailing *** in the pattern is a shorthand that allows you to match  a  directory
              and  all  its contents using a single rule.  For example, specifying "dir_name/***"
              will match both the "dir_name" directory (as if "dir_name/" had been specified) and
              everything in the directory (as if "dir_name/**" had been specified).

       o      a  backslash can be used to escape a wildcard character, but it is only interpreted
              as an escape character if at least one wildcard character is present in  the  match
              pattern.  For  instance,  the  pattern  "foo\bar"  matches  that  single  backslash
              literally, while the pattern "foo\bar*" would need to be changed to "foo\\bar*"  to
              avoid the "\b" becoming just "b".

       Here are some examples of exclude/include matching:

       o      Option -f'- *.o' would exclude all filenames ending with .o

       o      Option  -f'- /foo'  would  exclude a file (or directory) named foo in the transfer-
              root directory

       o      Option -f'- foo/' would exclude any directory named foo

       o      Option -f'- foo/*/bar' would exclude any file/dir named bar which is at two  levels
              below a directory named foo (if foo is in the transfer)

       o      Option  -f'- /foo/**/bar' would exclude any file/dir named bar that was two or more
              levels below a top-level directory named foo (note that /foo/bar is not excluded by
              this)

       o      Options  -f'+ */' -f'+ *.c' -f'- *'  would  include  all  directories and .c source
              files but nothing else

       o      Options -f'+ foo/' -f'+ foo/bar.c' -f'- *' would include only the foo directory and
              foo/bar.c (the foo directory must be explicitly included or it would be excluded by
              the "- *")

   FILTER RULE MODIFIERS
       The following modifiers are accepted after an include (+) or exclude (-) rule:

       o      A / specifies that the include/exclude rule should be matched against the  absolute
              pathname  of  the  current item.  For example, -f'-/ /etc/passwd' would exclude the
              passwd file any time the transfer was sending files from the "/etc" directory,  and
              "-/ subdir/foo" would always exclude "foo" when it is in a dir named "subdir", even
              if "foo" is at the root of the current transfer.

       o      A ! specifies that the include/exclude should take effect if the pattern  fails  to
              match.  For instance, -f'-! */' would exclude all non-directories.

       o      A C is used to indicate that all the global CVS-exclude rules should be inserted as
              excludes in place of the "-C".  No arg should follow.

       o      An s is used to indicate that the rule applies to the sending side.   When  a  rule
              affects  the  sending  side,  it  affects what files are put into the sender's file
              list.  The default is for a rule to affect both sides unless --delete-excluded  was
              specified,  in which case default rules become sender-side only.  See also the hide
              (H) and show (S)  rules,  which  are  an  alternate  way  to  specify  sending-side
              includes/excludes.

       o      An  r is used to indicate that the rule applies to the receiving side.  When a rule
              affects the receiving side, it prevents  files  from  being  deleted.   See  the  s
              modifier  for more info.  See also the protect (P) and risk (R) rules, which are an
              alternate way to specify receiver-side includes/excludes.

       o      A p indicates that a rule is perishable, meaning that it is ignored in  directories
              that  are  being  deleted.   For  instance, the --cvs-exclude (-C) option's default
              rules that exclude things like "CVS" and "*.o" are marked as perishable,  and  will
              not  prevent  a  directory that was removed on the source from being deleted on the
              destination.

       o      An x indicates that a rule affects xattr names in xattr copy/delete operations (and
              is  thus  ignored  when  matching  file/dir names).  If no xattr-matching rules are
              specified, a default xattr filtering rule is used (see the --xattrs option).

   MERGE-FILE FILTER RULES
       You can merge whole files into your filter rules by specifying either a  merge  (.)  or  a
       dir-merge (:) filter rule (as introduced in the FILTER RULES section above).

       There  are  two kinds of merged files -- single-instance ('.') and per-directory (':').  A
       single-instance merge file is read one time, and  its  rules  are  incorporated  into  the
       filter  list in the place of the "." rule.  For per-directory merge files, rsync will scan
       every directory that it traverses for the named file, merging its contents when  the  file
       exists  into  the current list of inherited rules.  These per-directory rule files must be
       created on the sending side because it is the sending side that is being scanned  for  the
       available  files  to  transfer.   These  rule files may also need to be transferred to the
       receiving side if you want them to affect what files don't get deleted (see  PER-DIRECTORY
       RULES AND DELETE below).

       Some examples:

           merge /etc/rsync/default.rules
           . /etc/rsync/default.rules
           dir-merge .per-dir-filter
           dir-merge,n- .non-inherited-per-dir-excludes
           :n- .non-inherited-per-dir-excludes

       The following modifiers are accepted after a merge or dir-merge rule:

       o      A  - specifies that the file should consist of only exclude patterns, with no other
              rule-parsing except for in-file comments.

       o      A + specifies that the file should consist of only include patterns, with no  other
              rule-parsing except for in-file comments.

       o      A  C  is  a way to specify that the file should be read in a CVS-compatible manner.
              This turns on 'n', 'w', and '-', but also allows the list-clearing token (!) to  be
              specified.  If no filename is provided, ".cvsignore" is assumed.

       o      A  e will exclude the merge-file name from the transfer; e.g.  "dir-merge,e .rules"
              is like "dir-merge .rules" and "- .rules".

       o      An n specifies that the rules are not inherited by subdirectories.

       o      A w specifies that the rules are word-split on whitespace  instead  of  the  normal
              line-splitting.   This also turns off comments.  Note: the space that separates the
              prefix from the rule is treated specially, so "- foo + bar" is parsed as two  rules
              (assuming that prefix-parsing wasn't also disabled).

       o      You may also specify any of the modifiers for the "+" or "-" rules (above) in order
              to have the rules that are read in from the file default to  having  that  modifier
              set  (except  for  the  !  modifier,  which  would  not  be useful).  For instance,
              "merge,-/ .excl" would treat the contents of .excl as absolute-path excludes, while
              "dir-merge,s  .filt"  and ":sC" would each make all their per-directory rules apply
              only on the sending side.  If the merge rule specifies sides to affect (via  the  s
              or  r  modifier  or both), then the rules in the file must not specify sides (via a
              modifier or a rule prefix such as hide).

       Per-directory rules are inherited in all subdirectories of the directory where the  merge-
       file  was  found unless the 'n' modifier was used.  Each subdirectory's rules are prefixed
       to the inherited per-directory rules from its parents, which  gives  the  newest  rules  a
       higher  priority  than the inherited rules.  The entire set of dir-merge rules are grouped
       together in the spot where the merge-file was specified, so it  is  possible  to  override
       dir-merge  rules  via a rule that got specified earlier in the list of global rules.  When
       the list-clearing rule ("!") is read  from  a  per-directory  file,  it  only  clears  the
       inherited rules for the current merge file.

       Another  way  to  prevent  a  single rule from a dir-merge file from being inherited is to
       anchor it with a leading slash.  Anchored rules in a per-directory merge-file are relative
       to  the merge-file's directory, so a pattern "/foo" would only match the file "foo" in the
       directory where the dir-merge filter file was found.

       Here's an example filter file which you'd specify via --filter=". file":

           merge /home/user/.global-filter
           - *.gz
           dir-merge .rules
           + *.[ch]
           - *.o
           - foo*

       This will merge the contents of the /home/user/.global-filter file at  the  start  of  the
       list  and  also  turns  the ".rules" filename into a per-directory filter file.  All rules
       read in prior to the start of the directory scan follow the global anchoring rules (i.e. a
       leading slash matches at the root of the transfer).

       If  a  per-directory merge-file is specified with a path that is a parent directory of the
       first transfer directory, rsync will scan all the parent dirs from that starting point  to
       the  transfer  directory  for  the  indicated per-directory file.  For instance, here is a
       common filter (see -F):

           --filter=': /.rsync-filter'

       That rule tells rsync to scan for the file .rsync-filter in all directories from the  root
       down  through  the  parent  directory  of  the  transfer  prior to the start of the normal
       directory scan of the file in the directories that are sent as a  part  of  the  transfer.
       (Note: for an rsync daemon, the root is always the same as the module's "path".)

       Some examples of this pre-scanning for per-directory files:

           rsync -avF /src/path/ /dest/dir
           rsync -av --filter=': ../../.rsync-filter' /src/path/ /dest/dir
           rsync -av --filter=': .rsync-filter' /src/path/ /dest/dir

       The  first  two  commands above will look for ".rsync-filter" in "/" and "/src" before the
       normal scan begins looking for the file in "/src/path" and its subdirectories.   The  last
       command  avoids  the  parent-dir scan and only looks for the ".rsync-filter" files in each
       directory that is a part of the transfer.

       If you want to include the contents of a ".cvsignore" in your patterns, you should use the
       rule  ":C",  which  creates  a  dir-merge  of  the  .cvsignore  file, but parsed in a CVS-
       compatible manner.  You can use this to  affect  where  the  --cvs-exclude  (-C)  option's
       inclusion  of the per-directory .cvsignore file gets placed into your rules by putting the
       ":C" wherever you like in your filter rules.  Without this, rsync would add the  dir-merge
       rule  for  the  .cvsignore  file  at  the  end  of all your other rules (giving it a lower
       priority than your command-line rules).  For example:

           cat <<EOT | rsync -avC --filter='. -' a/ b
           + foo.o
           :C
           - *.old
           EOT
           rsync -avC --include=foo.o -f :C --exclude='*.old' a/ b

       Both of the above rsync commands are identical.  Each one will merge all the per-directory
       .cvsignore rules in the middle of the list rather than at the end.  This allows their dir-
       specific rules to supersede the rules that follow the :C instead of being  subservient  to
       all  your  rules.   To  affect  the  other  CVS  exclude  rules  (i.e. the default list of
       exclusions, the contents of $HOME/.cvsignore, and the value of $CVSIGNORE) you should omit
       the  -C  command-line  option  and instead insert a "-C" rule into your filter rules; e.g.
       "--filter=-C".

   LIST-CLEARING FILTER RULE
       You can clear the current include/exclude list by using the "!" filter rule (as introduced
       in the FILTER RULES section above).  The "current" list is either the global list of rules
       (if the rule is encountered while parsing the filter options) or a  set  of  per-directory
       rules  (which are inherited in their own sub-list, so a subdirectory can use this to clear
       out the parent's rules).

   ANCHORING INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERNS
       As mentioned earlier, global include/exclude patterns are anchored at  the  "root  of  the
       transfer"  (as  opposed  to per-directory patterns, which are anchored at the merge-file's
       directory).  If you think of the transfer as a subtree of names that are being  sent  from
       sender  to  receiver,  the  transfer-root is where the tree starts to be duplicated in the
       destination directory.  This root governs where patterns that start with a / match.

       Because the matching is relative to the transfer-root, changing the trailing  slash  on  a
       source path or changing your use of the --relative option affects the path you need to use
       in your matching (in addition to changing how much of the file tree is duplicated  on  the
       destination host).  The following examples demonstrate this.

       Let's  say  that  we  want  to  match  two  source  files,  one  with  an absolute path of
       "/home/me/foo/bar", and one with a path of "/home/you/bar/baz".  Here is how  the  various
       command choices differ for a 2-source transfer:

           Example cmd: rsync -a /home/me /home/you /dest
           +/- pattern: /me/foo/bar
           +/- pattern: /you/bar/baz
           Target file: /dest/me/foo/bar
           Target file: /dest/you/bar/baz

           Example cmd: rsync -a /home/me/ /home/you/ /dest
           +/- pattern: /foo/bar               (note missing "me")
           +/- pattern: /bar/baz               (note missing "you")
           Target file: /dest/foo/bar
           Target file: /dest/bar/baz

           Example cmd: rsync -a --relative /home/me/ /home/you /dest
           +/- pattern: /home/me/foo/bar       (note full path)
           +/- pattern: /home/you/bar/baz      (ditto)
           Target file: /dest/home/me/foo/bar
           Target file: /dest/home/you/bar/baz

           Example cmd: cd /home; rsync -a --relative me/foo you/ /dest
           +/- pattern: /me/foo/bar      (starts at specified path)
           +/- pattern: /you/bar/baz     (ditto)
           Target file: /dest/me/foo/bar
           Target file: /dest/you/bar/baz

       The  easiest  way  to  see  what name you should filter is to just look at the output when
       using --verbose and put a / in front of the name (use the --dry-run option if  you're  not
       yet ready to copy any files).

   PER-DIRECTORY RULES AND DELETE
       Without a delete option, per-directory rules are only relevant on the sending side, so you
       can feel free to exclude the merge files themselves without affecting  the  transfer.   To
       make  this  easy,  the  'e'  modifier  adds  this  exclude  for  you, as seen in these two
       equivalent commands:

           rsync -av --filter=': .excl' --exclude=.excl host:src/dir /dest
           rsync -av --filter=':e .excl' host:src/dir /dest

       However, if you want to do a delete on the receiving side AND you want some  files  to  be
       excluded  from  being  deleted,  you'll need to be sure that the receiving side knows what
       files to exclude.  The easiest way is to include the  per-directory  merge  files  in  the
       transfer and use --delete-after, because this ensures that the receiving side gets all the
       same exclude rules as the sending side before it tries to delete anything:

           rsync -avF --delete-after host:src/dir /dest

       However, if the merge files are not a part of the transfer, you'll need to either  specify
       some global exclude rules (i.e. specified on the command line), or you'll need to maintain
       your own per-directory merge files on the receiving side.  An example of the first is this
       (assume that the remote .rules files exclude themselves):

           rsync -av --filter=': .rules' --filter='. /my/extra.rules'
              --delete host:src/dir /dest

       In  the  above example the extra.rules file can affect both sides of the transfer, but (on
       the sending side) the rules are subservient to the rules  merged  from  the  .rules  files
       because they were specified after the per-directory merge rule.

       In  one  final  example,  the  remote  side  is excluding the .rsync-filter files from the
       transfer, but we want to use our own .rsync-filter files to control what gets  deleted  on
       the receiving side.  To do this we must specifically exclude the per-directory merge files
       (so that they don't get deleted) and then put rules into the local files to  control  what
       else should not get deleted.  Like one of these commands:

           rsync -av --filter=':e /.rsync-filter' --delete \
               host:src/dir /dest
           rsync -avFF --delete host:src/dir /dest

TRANSFER RULES

       In  addition  to  the  FILTER RULES that affect the recursive file scans that generate the
       file list on the sending and (when deleting) receiving sides, there  are  transfer  rules.
       These  rules  affect  which files the generator decides need to be transferred without the
       side effects of an exclude filter rule.   Transfer  rules  affect  only  files  and  never
       directories.

       Because  a transfer rule does not affect what goes into the sender's (and receiver's) file
       list, it cannot have any effect on which files get deleted on  the  receiving  side.   For
       example, if the file "foo" is present in the sender's list but its size is such that it is
       omitted due to a transfer rule, the receiving side does not request  the  file.   However,
       its  presence  in  the  file list means that a delete pass will not remove a matching file
       named "foo" on the receiving side.  On the other hand, a server-side exclude (hide) of the
       file  "foo"  leaves  the  file  out  of the server's file list, and absent a receiver-side
       exclude (protect) the receiver will remove a matching file named "foo"  if  deletions  are
       requested.

       Given  that  the  files are still in the sender's file list, the --prune-empty-dirs option
       will not judge a directory as being empty even if it contains only files that the transfer
       rules omitted.

       Similarly,  a  transfer  rule does not have any extra effect on which files are deleted on
       the receiving side, so setting a maximum file size for the transfer does not  prevent  big
       files from being deleted.

       Examples  of  transfer  rules  include the default "quick check" algorithm (which compares
       size & modify time), the --update option, the --max-size option, the --ignore-non-existing
       option, and a few others.

BATCH MODE

       Batch  mode  can  be  used  to  apply  the  same set of updates to many identical systems.
       Suppose one has a tree which is replicated on a number of hosts.  Now suppose some changes
       have  been  made  to this source tree and those changes need to be propagated to the other
       hosts.  In order to do this using batch mode, rsync is run with the write-batch option  to
       apply  the  changes  made  to the source tree to one of the destination trees.  The write-
       batch option causes the rsync client to store in a "batch file" all the information needed
       to repeat this operation against other, identical destination trees.

       Generating the batch file once saves having to perform the file status, checksum, and data
       block generation more than once  when  updating  multiple  destination  trees.   Multicast
       transport  protocols  can  be  used to transfer the batch update files in parallel to many
       hosts at once, instead of sending the same data to every host individually.

       To apply the recorded changes to another destination tree, run rsync with  the  read-batch
       option,  specifying  the  name  of  the  same batch file, and the destination tree.  Rsync
       updates the destination tree using the information stored in the batch file.

       For your convenience, a script file is also created when the write-batch option  is  used:
       it  will  be  named  the  same  as  the  batch file with ".sh" appended.  This script file
       contains a command-line suitable for updating a  destination  tree  using  the  associated
       batch  file.  It can be executed using a Bourne (or Bourne-like) shell, optionally passing
       in an alternate destination tree pathname which is  then  used  instead  of  the  original
       destination  path.   This  is  useful  when  the destination tree path on the current host
       differs from the one used to create the batch file.

       Examples:

           $ rsync --write-batch=foo -a host:/source/dir/ /adest/dir/
           $ scp foo* remote:
           $ ssh remote ./foo.sh /bdest/dir/

           $ rsync --write-batch=foo -a /source/dir/ /adest/dir/
           $ ssh remote rsync --read-batch=- -a /bdest/dir/ <foo

       In these examples,  rsync  is  used  to  update  /adest/dir/  from  /source/dir/  and  the
       information  to  repeat this operation is stored in "foo" and "foo.sh".  The host "remote"
       is then  updated  with  the  batched  data  going  into  the  directory  /bdest/dir.   The
       differences  between  the two examples reveals some of the flexibility you have in how you
       deal with batches:

       o      The first example shows that the initial copy doesn't have to be local --  you  can
              push  or  pull  data  to/from a remote host using either the remote-shell syntax or
              rsync daemon syntax, as desired.

       o      The first example uses the created "foo.sh" file to get  the  right  rsync  options
              when running the read-batch command on the remote host.

       o      The  second  example reads the batch data via standard input so that the batch file
              doesn't need to be copied to the remote machine first.   This  example  avoids  the
              foo.sh  script  because  it  needed  to use a modified --read-batch option, but you
              could edit the script file if you wished to make use of it (just be  sure  that  no
              other option is trying to use standard input, such as the --exclude-from=- option).

       Caveats:

       The  read-batch option expects the destination tree that it is updating to be identical to
       the destination tree that was used to create the batch update fileset.  When a  difference
       between  the destination trees is encountered the update might be discarded with a warning
       (if the file appears to be up-to-date already) or the file-update  may  be  attempted  and
       then, if the file fails to verify, the update discarded with an error.  This means that it
       should be safe to re-run a read-batch operation if the command got  interrupted.   If  you
       wish  to force the batched-update to always be attempted regardless of the file's size and
       date, use the -I option (when reading the batch).  If an  error  occurs,  the  destination
       tree  will  probably  be in a partially updated state.  In that case, rsync can be used in
       its regular (non-batch) mode of operation to fix up the destination tree.

       The rsync version used on all destinations must be at least as new  as  the  one  used  to
       generate  the  batch  file.   Rsync  will die with an error if the protocol version in the
       batch file is too new for the batch-reading rsync to  handle.   See  also  the  --protocol
       option  for a way to have the creating rsync generate a batch file that an older rsync can
       understand.  (Note that batch files changed format in version 2.6.3,  so  mixing  versions
       older than that with newer versions will not work.)

       When reading a batch file, rsync will force the value of certain options to match the data
       in the batch file if you didn't set them to the same as the batch-writing command.   Other
       options  can (and should) be changed.  For instance --write-batch changes to --read-batch,
       --files-from is dropped, and the --filter / --include / --exclude options are  not  needed
       unless one of the --delete options is specified.

       The code that creates the BATCH.sh file transforms any filter/include/exclude options into
       a single list that is appended as a "here" document to the shell script file.  An advanced
       user  can use this to modify the exclude list if a change in what gets deleted by --delete
       is desired.  A normal user can ignore this detail and just use the shell script as an easy
       way to run the appropriate --read-batch command for the batched data.

       The  original batch mode in rsync was based on "rsync+", but the latest version uses a new
       implementation.

SYMBOLIC LINKS

       Three basic behaviors are possible when rsync encounters a symbolic  link  in  the  source
       directory.

       By  default,  symbolic links are not transferred at all.  A message "skipping non-regular"
       file is emitted for any symlinks that exist.

       If --links is specified, then symlinks are added to the transfer (instead of being noisily
       ignored),  and  the  default  handling  is  to  recreate  them with the same target on the
       destination.  Note that --archive implies --links.

       If --copy-links is specified, then symlinks are "collapsed"  by  copying  their  referent,
       rather than the symlink.

       Rsync  can  also  distinguish  "safe"  and "unsafe" symbolic links.  An example where this
       might be used is a web site mirror that wishes to ensure that the  rsync  module  that  is
       copied  does  not include symbolic links to /etc/passwd in the public section of the site.
       Using --copy-unsafe-links will cause any links to be copied as the file they point  to  on
       the  destination.   Using  --safe-links  will  cause  unsafe  links  to  be omitted by the
       receiver.  (Note that you must specify or imply  --links  for  --safe-links  to  have  any
       effect.)

       Symbolic  links are considered unsafe if they are absolute symlinks (start with /), empty,
       or if they contain enough ".." components to ascend from the top of the transfer.

       Here's a summary of how the symlink options are interpreted.  The  list  is  in  order  of
       precedence,  so if your combination of options isn't mentioned, use the first line that is
       a complete subset of your options:

       --copy-links
              Turn all symlinks into normal files and directories (leaving  no  symlinks  in  the
              transfer for any other options to affect).

       --copy-dirlinks
              Turn just symlinks to directories into real directories, leaving all other symlinks
              to be handled as described below.

       --links --copy-unsafe-links
              Turn all unsafe symlinks into files and create all safe symlinks.

       --copy-unsafe-links
              Turn all unsafe symlinks into files, noisily skip all safe symlinks.

       --links --safe-links
              The receiver skips creating unsafe symlinks found in the transfer and  creates  the
              safe ones.

       --links
              Create all symlinks.

       For the effect of --munge-links, see the discussion in that option's section.

       Note  that the --keep-dirlinks option does not effect symlinks in the transfer but instead
       affects how rsync treats a symlink to a directory that already  exists  on  the  receiving
       side.  See that option's section for a warning.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Rsync  occasionally  produces error messages that may seem a little cryptic.  The one that
       seems to cause the most confusion is "protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?".

       This message is usually caused by your startup scripts or remote shell facility  producing
       unwanted garbage on the stream that rsync is using for its transport.  The way to diagnose
       this problem is to run your remote shell like this:

           ssh remotehost /bin/true > out.dat

       then look at out.dat.  If everything is working correctly then out.dat should  be  a  zero
       length  file.   If  you are getting the above error from rsync then you will probably find
       that out.dat contains some text or data.  Look at the contents and try to work out what is
       producing it.  The most common cause is incorrectly configured shell startup scripts (such
       as .cshrc or .profile) that contain output statements for non-interactive logins.

       If you are having trouble debugging filter patterns, then try specifying the  -vv  option.
       At  this  level  of  verbosity  rsync  will  show  why each individual file is included or
       excluded.

EXIT VALUES

       o      0 - Success

       o      1 - Syntax or usage error

       o      2 - Protocol incompatibility

       o      3 - Errors selecting input/output files, dirs

       o

              o      4 - Requested action not supported. Either:

                     an attempt was made to manipulate 64-bit files on  a  platform  that  cannot
                     support them

              o      an  option  was  specified  that  is  supported by the client and not by the
                     server

       o      5 - Error starting client-server protocol

       o      6 - Daemon unable to append to log-file

       o      10 - Error in socket I/O

       o      11 - Error in file I/O

       o      12 - Error in rsync protocol data stream

       o      13 - Errors with program diagnostics

       o      14 - Error in IPC code

       o      20 - Received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT

       o      21 - Some error returned by waitpid()

       o      22 - Error allocating core memory buffers

       o      23 - Partial transfer due to error

       o      24 - Partial transfer due to vanished source files

       o      25 - The --max-delete limit stopped deletions

       o      30 - Timeout in data send/receive

       o      35 - Timeout waiting for daemon connection

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       CVSIGNORE
              The CVSIGNORE environment variable supplements any ignore  patterns  in  .cvsignore
              files.  See the --cvs-exclude option for more details.

       RSYNC_ICONV
              Specify  a default --iconv setting using this environment variable. First supported
              in 3.0.0.

       RSYNC_OLD_ARGS
              Specify a "1" if you want the --old-args option to be enabled by default, a "2" (or
              more)  if  you want it to be enabled in the repeated-option state, or a "0" to make
              sure that it is disabled by default. When this environment variable  is  set  to  a
              non-zero value, it supersedes the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS variable.

              This  variable  is  ignored  if  --old-args,  --no-old-args,  or --secluded-args is
              specified on the command line.

              First supported in 3.2.4.

       RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS
              Specify a non-zero numeric value if you  want  the  --secluded-args  option  to  be
              enabled by default, or a zero value to make sure that it is disabled by default.

              This  variable  is ignored if --secluded-args, --no-secluded-args, or --old-args is
              specified on the command line.

              First supported  in  3.1.0.   Starting  in  3.2.4,  this  variable  is  ignored  if
              RSYNC_OLD_ARGS is set to a non-zero value.

       RSYNC_RSH
              This  environment  variable  allows  you  to override the default shell used as the
              transport for rsync.  Command line options are permitted after  the  command  name,
              just as in the --rsh (-e) option.

       RSYNC_PROXY
              This  environment  variable  allows  you to redirect your rsync client to use a web
              proxy when connecting to  an  rsync  daemon.   You  should  set  RSYNC_PROXY  to  a
              hostname:port pair.

       RSYNC_PASSWORD
              This  environment  variable  allows  you  to  set  the password for an rsync daemon
              connection, which avoids the password prompt.  Note that this  does  not  supply  a
              password to a remote shell transport such as ssh (consult its documentation for how
              to do that).

       USER or LOGNAME
              The USER or LOGNAME  environment  variables  are  used  to  determine  the  default
              username  sent  to  an  rsync  daemon.  If neither is set, the username defaults to
              "nobody".  If both are set, USER takes precedence.

       RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR
              This environment variable specifies the directory to use for a  --partial  transfer
              without  implying  that partial transfers be enabled.  See the --partial-dir option
              for full details.

       RSYNC_COMPRESS_LIST
              This  environment  variable  allows  you  to  customize  the  negotiation  of   the
              compression  algorithm by specifying an alternate order or a reduced list of names.
              Use the command rsync --version to see the available compression  names.   See  the
              --compress option for full details.

       RSYNC_CHECKSUM_LIST
              This  environment  variable allows you to customize the negotiation of the checksum
              algorithm by specifying an alternate order or a reduced list  of  names.   Use  the
              command  rsync --version  to see the available checksum names.  See the --checksum-
              choice option for full details.

       RSYNC_MAX_ALLOC
              This environment variable sets an allocation maximum as if you had used the  --max-
              alloc option.

       RSYNC_PORT
              This  environment  variable  is  not  read by rsync, but is instead set in its sub-
              environment when rsync is running the remote shell in  combination  with  a  daemon
              connection.   This  allows  a  script such as rsync-ssl to be able to know the port
              number that the user specified on the command line.

       HOME   This environment variable is used to find the user's default .cvsignore file.

       RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG
              This environment variable is mainly used in debug setups to set the program to  use
              when  making  a  daemon  connection.   See  CONNECTING  TO AN RSYNC DAEMON for full
              details.

       RSYNC_SHELL
              This environment variable is mainly used in debug setups to set the program to  use
              to  run  the  program  specified by RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG.  See CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC
              DAEMON for full details.

FILES

       /etc/rsyncd.conf or rsyncd.conf

SEE ALSO

       rsync-ssl(1), rsyncd.conf(5), rrsync(1)

BUGS

       o      Times are transferred as *nix time_t values.

       o      When transferring to FAT filesystems rsync may re-sync unmodified files.   See  the
              comments on the --modify-window option.

       o      File permissions, devices, etc. are transferred as native numerical values.

       o      See also the comments on the --delete option.

       Please report bugs! See the web site at ⟨https://rsync.samba.org/⟩.

VERSION

       This manpage is current for version 3.3.0 of rsync.

INTERNAL OPTIONS

       The  options --server and --sender are used internally by rsync, and should never be typed
       by a user under normal circumstances.  Some awareness of these options may  be  needed  in
       certain  scenarios,  such  as  when setting up a login that can only run an rsync command.
       For instance, the support directory of the rsync distribution has an example script  named
       rrsync (for restricted rsync) that can be used with a restricted ssh login.

CREDITS

       Rsync  is  distributed  under  the  GNU  General Public License.  See the file COPYING for
       details.

       An rsync web site is available at ⟨https://rsync.samba.org/⟩.  The site includes an FAQ-O-
       Matic which may cover questions unanswered by this manual page.

       The rsync github project is ⟨https://github.com/WayneD/rsync⟩.

       We  would  be  delighted  to  hear  from you if you like this program.  Please contact the
       mailing-list at rsync@lists.samba.orgmailto:rsync@lists.samba.org⟩.

       This program uses the excellent zlib compression library written by Jean-loup  Gailly  and
       Mark Adler.

THANKS

       Special  thanks  go  out  to:  John  Van  Essen, Matt McCutchen, Wesley W. Terpstra, David
       Dykstra, Jos Backus,  Sebastian  Krahmer,  Martin  Pool,  and  our  gone-but-not-forgotten
       compadre, J.W. Schultz.

       Thanks also to Richard Brent, Brendan Mackay, Bill Waite, Stephen Rothwell and David Bell.
       I've probably missed some people, my apologies if I have.

AUTHOR

       Rsync was originally written by Andrew Tridgell and  Paul  Mackerras.   Many  people  have
       later contributed to it. It is currently maintained by Wayne Davison.

       Mailing lists for support and development are available at ⟨https://lists.samba.org/⟩.