How fast is rsync?

Anyone ever transferred large files with it?

What is the main advantage over ftp and other methods?

Sp开发者_高级运维eed? or slicing

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it keeps 2 directories in sync. so it's mainly useful if you need to do that since it'll only transfer the ones on the sender that aren't on the receiver, or let you delete ones on one that aren't on the other, etc.

for just copying large files, use scp/ftp/whatever.

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Speed, it does very effective compression. Range of features, it can be tailored significantly.