Recently I was moving data between an old server and new web server. I had some 250 GB of data and thought about just using Secure Copy (scp). When I started the process, I walked away
thinking “No Problem”, but after a few files, I got an error due to file permissions and I did not want to figure out what files had not been copied yet or where to try to restart.
So I used rsync to mirror the drive. I was able to set it up and due to my slow network speed, it still took several days, but I was certain that I had gotten all the data.
rsync -azuv -e ssh user@originserver:public_html/* public_html/
The options I used were for :
| Option | Description |
| -a | Archive Mode |
| -z | Compress File Data |
| -u | Update Mode |
| -v | Verbose |
| -e |
specify command to run |
This took some time to run, but I did not have to babysit the command and it duplicated the data from my old server to the new one.