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rsync as sudo-ed user on the remote host. Needed to preserve permissions, get special files over, etc
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# Remote user must have NOPASSWD set in sudoers
# This example mirrors an entire directory
rsync --progress -avz --delete --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /path/to/sync/ user@host:/path/to/sync
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