rsync output

Question 1

rsync

ForYourOwnGood · Jul 11, 2009 · Viewed 23k times · Source

Answer

Answer

I've paraphrased here the relevant portion of the manpage for people who have trouble finding it:

< means that a file is being transferred to the remote host (sent).
> means that a file is being transferred to the local host (received).
c means that a local change/creation is occurring for the item (such as the creation of a directory or the changing of a symlink, etc.).
h means that the item is a hard link to another item (requires --hard-links).
. means that the item is not being updated (though it might have attributes that are being modified).
* means that the rest of the itemized-output area contains a message (e.g. "deleting").

c means either that a regular file has a different checksum or that a symlink, device, or special file has a changed value.
s means the size of a regular file is different and will be updated by the file transfer.
t or T:
- t means the modification time is different and is being updated to the sender's value
- T means that the modification time will be set to the transfer time
p means the permissions are different and are being updated to the sender's value
o means the owner is different and is being updated to the sender's value
g means the group is different and is being updated to the sender's value
. unused

Question 2

I am new to rsync and I do not understand the output I am getting, can someone help me out,

the output contains lines such as,

<f.st...... somefile.txt
<f+++++++++ someOtherfile.zip
.d..t...... someDir/

I do not understand what the options on the left mean, and I am having trouble finding the answer on google. Thanks.