The following is an example of using rsync to perform a irectory copy between two hosts over the network.

1) rsync needs to be installed on source and destination nodes

2) both nodes need to be each other’s /etc/hosts

3) rsync needs to be in the basic PATH for default user’s (root’s shell); create a soft link for rsync in /usr/bin on both nodes to make sure that rsh finds it

//rsync -a –delete -v/

EXAMPLE:

/usr/bin/rsync -a -v -u –delete root@hostname:/IETM /IETM

IMPORTANT FLAGS:

-a archive mode (recursive copy with timestamping)
-v verbose output
-u update only (don't overwrite newer files on target node)
--delete delete items not on