Howto Rsync Synchronize (Copy) Directories

recursive, preserve modification times, verbose. Use --delete to delete files on destination. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH SLASHES ON SOURCE DIRECTORY, CAN DELETE UNEXPECTED FILES. On destination doesn’t matter (or was it vice versa?).

rsync -rtv source/ destination/ - content of source, like source/*
rsync -rtv source destination/ - copies whole source

Synchronize through SSH:

rsync --rsh='ssh' source/ #{user}@#{host}:uploaded --verbose --recursive --delete --compress --progress