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user4559332
user4559332

Reputation:

enable rsync to run permanently

I have two machines, both running on linux with centos 7. I have installed the rsync packages on both of them and i am able to sync a directory from one machine to the other.

Right now i am doing the syncing manually, each time i want to sync i am running the next line:

rsync -r /home/stuff [email protected]/home

I was wondering if there is a way of configuring the rsync to do the syncing automatically, every some amount of time or preferably when there is a new file of sub directory in the home directory?

Thank you for your help. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7931

Answers (2)

Mostafa Hussein
Mostafa Hussein

Reputation: 11950

If you want to rsync every some amount of time you can use cronjobs which can be configured to run a specific command each amount of time and if you want to run rsync when there is an update or modification you can use lsyncd. check this article about use lsyncd

Update: As links might get outdated, I will add this brief example (You are free to modify it with what works best for you):

First create an ssh key on the source machine and then add the public key at the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the destination machine.

In the source machine update this file ~/.ssh/config with the following content:

# ~/.ssh/config
...
Host my.remote.server
    identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    hostname 123.0.0.99
    user root
    port 22
...

And configure your lsyncd with the following then restart lsyncd's service

# lsyncd.conf
...
sync {
    default.rsyncssh,
    source="/home/stuff",
    host="my.remote.server",
    targetdir="/home/stuff",
    excludeFrom="/etc/lsyncd/lsyncd.exclude",
    rsync = {
         archive = true,
    }
}
...

Upvotes: 5

BHARAT Bhasin
BHARAT Bhasin

Reputation: 45

You can setup an hourly cron job to do this. rsync in itself is quite efficient in that it only transfers changes. You can find more info about cron here: cron

Upvotes: 0

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