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meili100
04-02-2008, 07:13 PM
Are they the same concept?
brewbuck
04-02-2008, 07:20 PM
Are they the same concept?

rsync is dedicated to synchronizing filebases between systems. scp is dedicated to transferring files securely between systems. They are not entirely unrelated, but definitely not the same concept.

Often, people will run rsync on top of SSH to get secure synchronization.