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Basic Rsync
You will need to place your public SSH key on the server for authentication for this to work.
See this article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy-files-with-rsync-over-ssh
rsync -rv -e 'ssh -p 1111' user@SOURCE:/path/ /Users/brianblosser/DESTINATION/
Use rsync to transfer files from an FTP source to a local destination
-r: recurse into directories
-v: verbose
-e: Defines what protocol to connect with.
'ssh -p 1111' The argument of -e flag. Connect with ssh protocol on port 1111.
The -p flag is typically not required unless you are using a special port.
user@SOURCE
user: user name
SOURCE: server name
:/path/ Path on the server. Specifying a directory will transfer all the files in a directory, but not the directory itself
/DESTINATION/ Where to copy the files to. Will create a new directory if one with the name DESTINATION does not yet exist.
rsync man page: https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html
Computer Hope Reference: https://www.computerhope.com/unix/rsync.htm
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