Mirror files between production and development servers

Question

What would be the best tool to use for OSX to mirror files from development server to production server?

I have tried rsync with -av options from localhost to remote server, but it seems to be really slow. I have also tried FreeFileSync. On Windows I have Create Syncronicity, which is very good software in my opinion.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

rsync is usually one of the fastest ways to synchronize files over network, but it won't compress files unless you specify the -z option. That should improve the transfer of text files (HTML, CSS, JS) quite a lot. It won't affect binary files such as JPG or PNG much though since they're not easily compressed.

Also try --stats to get some insights into the actual transfer speeds.