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It doesn't do diffs, so it's really bad if there's a lot of duplicate data.
If you want to use it for backups, there are other solutions, so you still don't need to use it or know it. You can use something else. That's my only point. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
And "really bad" is all relative. If you are only backing up your home drive with documents or whatever, copying a few unnecessary gigabytes over a LAN connection isn't too bad at all. But scp isn't what you should be using for backups anyway. I only used rsync for file transfer...
I use rsync for all kinda of things:
I only really use scp if the system doesn't already have rsync.
Alright. But you don't need to know rsync. That's my only point. ๐๐
Sure, but you should probably be aware of what it is and what it does. It's incredibly common and will be referenced in a ton of documentation for Linux server stuff.
You won't need to unless you run a server in that case. ๐ But the only condition here was "working with Linux".
Like I said, I've been using Linux at home and for work for over a decade, maybe 15+ years, never once did I need to use rsync or know what it is.
That being said, it was convenient when I used it, but never did I need it.
This is the self-hosted community, so that's the context I was assuming.