wat is the differnces between scp and rsync in linux?

Answer Posted / ali

scp copies the data from using ssh protocol [secure copy].
rsync is more useful as it also copies the permissions as well, it basically syncs the data b/w source and destination.
rsync is more intelligent, as it will only copy the changes and no duplicates will be copied.

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