rsync ?

1st Official Post

    Hi all,

    LibreELEC team: thanks for this fork. I was wondering why openElec's next version is delayed, but no I understand.

    I'm running LE on a Raspi (not only, also on a Wetek Play), mainly as tvheadend based PVR.

    In OE there was the infamous "Unofficial" repo with a cli based rsync client, which was quite handy from time to time. Are there plans to support rsync also under LE ?

    Or is there a (simple) way to build the rsync client myself ? Or ist it possible to use the rsync binary from RaspBian ?

    Thanks in advance

    Quote from trogggy


    It's in the libreelec repo under 'virtual network-tools', bundled with a few other bits and bobs.


    Thanks a lot. I'm sorry to say there is no description of the package in Addons/Program Addons, only "A bundle of network tools and programs". Unlike System Tools, where there is a listing of the tools.

    Nevertheless I've got it

    Quote from gbi

    Thanks a lot. I'm sorry to say there is no description of the package in Addons/Program Addons, only "A bundle of network tools and programs". Unlike System Tools, where there is a listing of the tools.

    Nevertheless I've got it


    Took me a while to find it too.

    Bumping this to say I fully expected rsync to be in the System Tools add-on. I suppose it's debatable though. At least this thread came up easy on search!

    • Official Post

    To be fair: "rsync is a utility for efficiently transferring and synchronizing files across computer systems" which requires a network (or a bloke on a bicycle carrying 50 floppy disks).