Backup remote folders with rsync

rsync option source-directory destination-directory

Or, a better example:

rsync -chavzP --stats user@remote.host:/path/to/copy /path/to/local/storage

And here's the full explain shell explanation

chavzP is, respectively:

• --checksum
• --human-readable
• --archive (i.e. get everything, and be recursive)
• --verbose
• -P equivalent to --partial --progress ...good for a long transfer that may be interrupted

And

• --stats tells rsync to print a verbose set of statistics on the file transfer

...Can backup multiple files/folders by specifying them with, for example:

rsync -e ssh root@remote.com:/path/to/file :/path/to/second/file/ /local/directory/

Can use:

--dry-run

...to see what will be done, before executing.

Source

• How to Backup Files in Linux With Rsync on the Command Line
• Stackoverflow: Copying files using rsync from remote server to local machine

See also

• Backup multiple remote folders with rsync