We want to make a backup of data, for example to an external hard drive. Rsyncto the rescue. The basic command Assuming we are in someone’s home directory and we want to copy threesource directories Music, Documents and Movies to a destinationdirectory /mnt/external-hdd: $ rsync -a Music Documents Movies /mnt/external-hdd A word on slashes Notice that we omit the trailing forward slash / on the sourcedirectories. This means the destination will look like: /mnt/external-hdd|-- Music| |-- a.m...
