Rsync Script Generator

Build an rsync command from a form instead of hand-editing flags. Settings are encoded in the URL for easy sharing, and named presets can be saved in your browser.

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Paths

Source

A trailing slash is added automatically — rsync copies the contents, not the directory itself.

Destination

Saved configurations

Generated command

bash

rsync \
  -ah \
  --info=progress2 \
  --no-compress \
  --checksum \
  --exclude='.DS_Store' \
  --exclude='Thumbs.db' \
  --exclude='desktop.ini' \
  --exclude='node_modules' \
  --exclude='.git' \
  --exclude='.hg' \
  --exclude='.svn' \
  --exclude='.cache' \
  --exclude='__pycache__' \
  --exclude='*.tmp' \
  --exclude='*.swp' \
  [SOURCE]/ \
  [DESTINATION]

Enter a source path.
Enter a destination path.

Tips

The trailing slash on the source copies the directory's contents into the destination, not the directory itself. Without it, rsync creates a subdirectory at the destination.
Run with -n (dry run) before enabling --delete or --remove-source-files.
Disable --no-compress when transferring over WAN — compression reduces data sent at the cost of CPU.
Syncing to a Windows path via WSL (/mnt/c/, /mnt/d/, etc.)? Enable --no-perms --no-owner --no-group to avoid mkstemp … Operation not permitted errors, and also enable --no-times to avoid failed to set times errors — both caused by NTFS not supporting Unix metadata.

rsync for Data Migration — trevorblackman.dev rsync man page