Yes, rsync does seem a little newer (1996), whereas FTP was somewhat a basic function of the "Internet" in 1969 (or so) as the ARPnet was developed. The Internet had, as I recall, the facilities to transfer files "at birth." But it appears that some of our current command set, like "rsync," were developed to give us easier ways to accomplish tasks.
I have been using rsync to download my VPS Moodle backups to my Mac. I can run rsync on my Mac, since it's OS is Linux. This is pretty cool. 😎
I also run rsync each night (via CRON) from my little hosted server, which has "unlimited" storage (but cannot run Moodle) to move my production VPS Moodle backups to a second location.
rsync really rocks! 💃
I have been using rsync to download my VPS Moodle backups to my Mac. I can run rsync on my Mac, since it's OS is Linux. This is pretty cool. 😎
I also run rsync each night (via CRON) from my little hosted server, which has "unlimited" storage (but cannot run Moodle) to move my production VPS Moodle backups to a second location.
rsync really rocks! 💃
I have never tried using rsync to "migrate" my Moodle, but I am thinking that "in theory" it could be done, which is why I suggested it.