Handy rysnc examples

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rsync -vpcrazh --progress [source folder] [destination folder]

or 

rsync --verbose --perms --checksum --recursive --archive --compress --human-readable --progress  [source folder] [destination folder]


-v, --verbose               increase verbosity
-p, --perms                 preserve permissions
-c, --checksum              skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
-r, --recursive             recurse into directories
-a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
     --no-OPTION             turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
-z, --compress              compress file data during the transfer
     --compress-level=NUM    explicitly set compression level
     --skip-compress=LIST    skip compressing files with a suffix in LIST
-h, --human-readable        output numbers in a human-readable format
     --progress              show progress during transfer