rsync
Install command:
brew install rsyncUtility that provides fast incremental file transfer
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/rsync.json
Formula code: rsync.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 3.5.2 |
Depends on:
| libidn2 | 2.3.8 | International domain name library (IDNA2008, Punycode and TR46) |
| lz4 | 1.11.1 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| popt | 1.19 | Library like getopt(3) with a number of enhancements |
| xxhash | 0.8.4 | Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Binaries:
rrsync,
rsync,
rsync-ssl
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 249,475 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 3,330,835 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 20,195 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 12.4× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-15T00:53:29Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-16 to 2026-11-15. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 20,166 | 50,022 | 146,618 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 29 | 83 | 215 |
| Installs on Request | 19,121 | 47,260 | 136,436 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 29 | 83 | 215 |
| Build Errors | 106 |