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Discussion on: Difference between cp and rsync

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

The rsync one is very useful when moving lots and large files between servers as it can resume downloads.

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wolfiton • Edited

I agree that rsync is useful for the case you mentioned and others as well.

I think that a good summary for rsync is that if you have large files to copy or want to make backups then rsync is your friend.

Thanks for sharing @francisoquintero your opinion and offer an example of a good use case for rsync.