These are some "cheatsheets" on rsync which I prepared for internal documentation. The goal was to show in a simple way what source and destination options exist for rsync, how the behaviour of rsync changes depending on the form of the arguments given (finding that out demanded some actual testing) and how the various pieces of an rsync-over-ssh setup fit together.
I based myself on rsync-2.6.3-1 on Red Hat ES4.
The diagrams have been created using Microsoft Visio.
They can all be freely used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
Rsync source/destination arguments matrix (PNG)
Rsync source/destination arguments matrix (Microsoft Visio)
Rsync source/destination argument form matrix (PNG)
Rsync source/destination argument form matrix (Microsoft Visio)
Replicating a file with rsync-over-ssh (PNG)
Replicating a file with rsync-over-ssh (Large PNG)
Replicating a file with rsync-over-ssh (Microsoft Visio)
