22 engineers on Hacker News describe using rsync first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“that little switch that just wasted a whole day of useful development”
regret · production · 10 yr · mika314 · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Add on rsync for file transfers and I've felt pretty set.”
endorse · personal · freedomben · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The killer feature of this over rsync or rclone (which I love and use almost daily)”
endorse · personal · ZoomZoomZoom · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'll also miss out on cool linux utils like rsync which is how we migrated GB's of content onto the new vServer.”
endorse · production · mythz · 2012-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I then have my custom rsync backuping script doing a dry-run and warning me in a 'stop the world!' fashion”
neutral · personal · TacticalCoder · 2026-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A script that rsyncs the build artifact to the machine.”
neutral · production · rozap · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my recommendation after trial and error to rsync those to the runners and then rsync them back after the run completes”
neutral · production · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Code deployments are done using SCP and rsync and systemctl to stop and start services remotely.”
neutral · production · cloudyporpoise · 2022-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We did the rsync, started the new system, it seemed to be working okay, but then we started seeing some weird errors.”
neutral · production · prirun · 2022-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using rsync for months now to backup my files onto Google Drive”
neutral · personal · plibither8 · 2020-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“stick to combinations of ZFS, rsync, and the trusty old tarball.”
neutral · personal · cookiecaper · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I back up my own photos with a home server and some rsync (Syncopoli).”
neutral · personal · 4rtemis · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a nightly cron to rsync select directories in own cloud to S3”
neutral · personal · twothamendment · 2016-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to using rsync for binaries/ large files etc.”
neutral · production · woodcut · 2016-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“started a decade ago as a personal backup script using rsync and hardlinks”
neutral · production · linsomniac · 2015-03-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used plain rsync in cygwin through a Multiplatform GUI based in Qt 4.8.x.”
neutral · production · mromanuk · 2015-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this /backup partition -- with the backup version history and metadata -- is rsynced to various dumb backup storage locations.”
neutral · production · jd · 2013-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've moved to doing nightly rsyncs. Laptops rtc_wake at 4am... Backups are done over the local network from the "home server"”
neutral · personal · unhammer · 2013-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Run the precompile task locally and rsync to shared”
neutral · production · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we log in and rsync their data back to us”
neutral · production · 6 yr · rsync · 2012-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I rsync my music/photos/etc from my Linux partition to my phone's SD card, it clobbers everything”
neutral · personal · jstedfast · 2011-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?