RsyncUI - a GUI for rsync
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RsyncUI is a pure SwiftUI, Swift based macOS application, built for macOS Sonoma and later, utilizing the command line tool rsync for synchronizing files.
It is rsync which executes the real synchronizing task, not RsyncUI. RsyncUI is a GUI only on top of rsync. RsyncUI is signed and notarized by Apple.
Changelog and install
See the changelog for updates. RsyncUI is built as a Universal macOS Binary, which means it runs nativly on Apple Silicon and Intel-based Mac computers. RsyncUI can be installed by Homebrew or by download from GitHub.
brew install --cask rsyncui
If installed by Homebrew, the shasum is automatically verified. If downloaded from GitHub please verify the shasum.
New users
If you are new to RsyncUI, please read the important information. There is also info about the latest version of rsync to install.
The catalog for storing files files is $HOME/.rsyncosx/macserialnumber/.
Local attached disk, remote server and passwordless login
RsyncUI can synchronize your data to local attached disk, remote servers on the Internet and on your local LAN. If you only want to synchronize data to a local attached disk, connect the disk, add source and destination and you are ready for your first task.
If you want to synchronize data to a server, on Internet or your local LAN, there is some more setup to do. If you have enabled passwordless login by ssh-key you only have to add source, destination, login id and servername and you are ready to synchronize data. If you have not enabled passwordless login, there are some more actions required before your first task.
New tasks, verify task and synchronizing data
After adding a task, in the main view, a double click on the task executes a --dry-run and the second double click executes the real run.
A verification of a new task might also be executed by opening the Tasks or Rsync parameters view from the main sidebar, select the task and choose the Checker flag on
the toolbar. Press the Checker flag executes an estimation run, a --dry-run to verify the task.
For more experienced users of rsync, from within the Rsync parameters view, select the new task. Copy and paste the synchronization string into a terminal view.
The rsync command includes the --dry-run parameter as default within this view.
Always verify, by
--dry-run which is an estimation run, the result of a new task before executing it.
After adding the task, in the Add and update task view, select the task and then select the checker flag for an estimation run.Aborting a task
Please be aware it is an external task not controlled by RsyncUI, which executes the command line tool rsync. RsyncUI is monitoring the task for progress and termination.
The user can at any time abort a task. Please let the abort to finish and cleanup properly before starting a new task. It might take a few seconds. If not, the apps might
become unresponsive.
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