Itemized dry-run diff rsync
Preview every change with itemize codes (>f, cd, *deleting) before touching files
rsync -ai --dry-run --delete /src/ /dst/
more rsync
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Throttled transfer
rsync -a --bwlimit=10M --info=progress2 /src/ user@<host>:/dst/
Hardlinked incremental snapshots
rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../prev /src/ ./$(date +%F)/
Resume large file transfer
rsync -a --partial --append-verify --info=progress2 big.img user@<host>:/dst/
Non-standard SSH port + excludes
rsync -a -e "ssh -p 2222" --exclude-from=excludes.txt /src/ user@<host>:/dst/
Checksum-based sync
rsync -ac --delete-after /src/ /dst/