atzanteol, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

rsync is ubiquitous and the standard for this type of job.

rsync -rav --delete --progress --exclude=ignore_dir source-dir user@host:remote_dir

SSH is used to connect. Ownership, symlinks, etc. are preserved. Add more “excludes” to filter out more directories. Do your first run without " delete" to make sure things are going where you want.

If you want “backups” I would suggest something more sophisticated. But for just cloning this is the way.