For more complex, large, or regular backups, however, the go-to tool is rsync. It’s faster ... to handle specific tasks (like a router, for example), the only thing loaded on the computer ...

Forced by licensing issues, Apple replaced the rsync command-line tool in macOS with an alternative: openrsync. Here's what ...

That said, rsync also has similarities to scp. For example, it can also connect via SSH and you can use an SSH key to connect ...

Changes have been made to the terminal as part of macOS 15.4. Probably due to license changes, rsync has disappeared. As the macOS admin blogger Das Flounder writes, the change or replacement is ...