This special remote type rsyncs file contents to somewhere else.

Setup example:

# git annex initremote myrsync type=rsync rsyncurl=rsync://rsync.example.com/myrsync encryption=joey@kitenet.net
# git annex describe myrsync "rsync server"

Or for using rsync over SSH

# git annex initremote myrsync type=rsync rsyncurl=ssh.example.com:/myrsync encryption=joey@kitenet.net
# git annex describe myrsync "rsync server"

configuration

These parameters can be passed to git annex initremote to configure rsync:

• encryption - Required. Either "none" to disable encryption of content stored in rsync, or a value that can be looked up (using gpg -k) to find a gpg encryption key that will be given access to the remote. Note that additional gpg keys can be given access to a remote by rerunning initremote with the new key id. See encryption.

• rsyncurl - Required. This is the url or hostname:/directory to pass to rsync to tell it where to store content.

The annex-rsync-options git configuration setting can be used to pass parameters to rsync.