Rsync again

rsync is something I always use, but always end up looking up the arguments I want to use.  Here are my favorites:

• -v / —verbose
• -a / —archive (-rlptgoD)
• -r / —recursive
• -l / —links (copy symlinks as symlinks)
• —copy-unsafe-links (copy hard files from symlinks that point outside the source tree)
• -p / —perms preserve permissions
• -g / —group presreve group
• -o / —owner preserve owner
• —devices copy devices
• —specials copy special files
• -t / —times preserve modification times
• -u / — update (skip files that are newer on reciever)
• -H / —hard-links (preserve hard links)
• -E / —executability (preserve executability)
• -A / —acls preserve ACLs
• -X / —xattrs preserve extended attributes (some systems will give an error about operation not permitted with this argument)
• -S / —sparse handle sparse files efficiently
• —partial keep partially transfered files
• —exclude-from=FILE
• -F filter rules on per directory basis in .rsync-filter files
• -T / —temp-dir=DIR (temporary directory for files, ramdisk?)
• —stats
• —progress

Recently I was decomisioning a machine and I went with:

rysnc -vrlpDtuHEASF —temp-dir /mnt/ramdisk —partial —stats —progress —copy-unsave-links src dest

Since I was on a local network, I turned off compression on ssh