Getting started

For new users, kindly refer to the Important section. Additionally, please find information about the latest version of rsync to install, refer to the Latest version of rsync section .

The primary Sidebar menu is context-sensitive. The rationale behind a context-sensitive Sidebar menu is to conceal menu options that may be distracting to the user. See last on this page about the sidebar menu options.

New Tasks and Verification

RsyncUI supports synchronizing data to:

• local attached disk
• remote servers on the Internet or local LAN
  • requiere passwordless login by ssh-key

Local attached disk

RsyncUI can synchronize your data to a local attached disk. If you only want to synchronize data to a local attached disk, connect the disk, add the source and destination, and you are ready for your first task.

Remote server and passwordless login

If you want to synchronize data to a server, on the 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.

Verify new tasks

Always verify a new task. After adding a task, you can execute a --dry-run by double-clicking on the task in the main view. The second subsequent double-click will execute the real task, which is synchronize data from local to remote.

Aborting tasks

Please note that this is an external task not controlled by RsyncUI, which executes the command-line tool rsync. RsyncUI monitors the task for progress and termination.

The user can abort a task at any time. However, it is essential to allow the task to complete and perform any necessary cleanup operations before starting a new task. This process may take a few seconds, and if not, the applications may become unresponsive.

The Sidebar Menu options

There are three Sidebar menu options that are contingent upon the properties of a task. It is sufficient as long as one of the tasks satisfies one of the prerequisites.

• Snapshot: this option is exclusively available for snapshot tasks
• Restore: this option is only available for synchronize- and snapshot tasks where the destination is located on a remote server
• Verify remote: this option is only available for synchronize tasks where the destination is located on a remote server

Minimum Sidebar Menu

This is the minimum. If you exclusively utilize RsyncUI for synchronizing tasks to local attached disks. There are no remote servers and no snapshot task. The only remote server, see column Server, is a server named raspberrypi, which is halted.

Snapshot and restore

This is snapshot and restore, a snapshot task with destination on a remote server. That is why the restore menu is avaliable as well. The Verify remote is only for synchronization tasks with destination on a remote server. That is why it is not present.

Full Sidebar Menu

This is all menu options, a snapshot task and synchronize task, both with destination on a remote server.