Rsync - Copy from remote hosts

To copy files from remote servers

a) Mount the filesystem locally using NFS.

Run the below :

 rsync   -avtz      /net/host_name-mounted/faovm     /scratch/aime/faovm_local


/net/host_name-mounted/faovm is a NFS point which is mounted locally.

There is a difference in

/net/host_name-mounted/faovm and /net/host_name-mounted/faovm/

/net/host_name-mounted/faovm    :   will copy  faovm directory also.
/net/host_name-mounted/faovm/   : by giving trailing slash it will copy contents inside faovm dir.



-a  archive mode
-v  verbose
-t  preserve time
-z  transfering in a compressed mode , so that transfers are done quickly