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rsync Cookbook: The Trailing Slash Rule, --delete Safely, Dry Runs, Excludes and Itemized Changes

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Self-Hosting & Infra intermediate 5 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-10-20

Tested rsync 3.2.7: s versus s/ creating d/s or merging into d, deletions only with --delete, dry-run listing without creating the destination, itemize-changes codes, exclude patterns and paths with spaces.

rsync copies only what changed, but a trailing slash or --delete in the wrong place can nest or wipe a directory. Learn the slash rule, preview with -n and itemize, exclude paths and read the output.

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