rsync moving files around
Since Drupal Files directory is often outside of version control, we have to move them another from dev to live in a different way.
To move these files we use RSYNC from within a terminal.
// params: FLAGS, USER, FROM, TO
rsync -avzP steve@blah.com:/var/www/booga.com/drupal/files/ /var/www/booga.comt/drupal/files/
Running this from within a terminal connected to Dev would look like this
Moving Dev up to Live
rsync -avzP /var/www/booga.com/drupal/files/
steve@booga.com:/var/www/booga.com/drupal/files/
Moving Live down to Dev
rsync -avzP steve@booga.com:/var/www/booga.com/drupal/files/ /var/www/booga.com/drupal/files/
options used:
-a archive
-v verbose
-z compress
-P partial progress