Remote server sync from Live server, rsync options

I usually use the ones I list in my guide at Upgrade - Nginx - Redis - Insight Guide - Centmin Mod Site Data Migration Guide = avzin for dry runs and avzi for live runs combined with --progress --stats

Code (Text):

rsync -avzi --progress --stats -e "ssh -p $port -i $HOME/.ssh/$privatekey"

where $port = SSH port and $privatekey is name of SSH private key

FYI some of your flags like -r are duplicated as you already have -a

strange did you have -a ?

 

order of commands is important

Code (Text):

rsync -avzin --progress --stats --delete src/ dest/
sending incremental file list
*deleting   src/file.txt
*deleting   src/
*deleting   file-delete.txt
.d..t...... ./
>f+++++++++ file.txt

Number of files: 2 (reg: 1, dir: 1)
Number of created files: 1 (reg: 1)
Number of deleted files: 3 (reg: 2, dir: 1)
Number of regular files transferred: 1
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 0
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 69
Total bytes received: 72

sent 69 bytes  received 72 bytes  282.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)

-e has to be separate as it passes on ssh/port options

 

see examples in Upgrade - Nginx - Redis - Insight Guide - Centmin Mod Site Data Migration Guide where -e is separate

 

try

Code (Text):

rsync -avzh --delete -e 'ssh -p 1234'