s-ashwinkumar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

s-ashwinkumar

#!/bin/bash

# 'arg-x' and 'x' behave like flags
# 'arg-y' and 'y' have required arguments.
# 'arg-z' and 'z' have optional arguments

# Initial value for the flag parameter (default false)
X=0

# create the option string