[imiric]

Rsync is one of my favorite programs. I use it daily. The CLI is a bit quirky (e.g. trailing slashes), but once you get used to it, it makes sense. And I really always use the same flags: `-avmLP`, with `-n` for dry runs.

One alternative I'd like to try is Google's abandoned CDC[1], which claims to be up to 30x faster than rsync in certain scenarios. Does anyone know if there is a maintained fork with full Linux support?

[1]: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

[adrian_b]

The same is true for me.

I always alias rsync to:

'/usr/bin/rsync --archive --xattrs --acls --hard-links --progress --rsh="ssh -p PORT -l USER"'

I almost never use any other program for file transfers between computers.