How To Install rsync on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync
on CentOS 7.
What is rsync
Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network instead of sending the complete files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rsync
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsync.
Install rsync on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rsync on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rsync on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rsync
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.