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Willy Robertus Leonardo
Willy Robertus Leonardo

Reputation: 11

How to get Lsyncd's file-watching capability with Unison's two-way sync?

I have used Lsyncd before, but it just works for one-way sync, so only the Master can copy files to the Slave server. I have found another solution for two-way sync between Master and Slave with Unison, but Unison doesn't watch for changes in real-time like Lsyncd does.

Is it possible to combine the functionality of Lsyncd and Unison? What I want is for Lsyncd to watch for changes, then notify Unison to do the syncing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1714

Answers (1)

Mike Pierce
Mike Pierce

Reputation: 1534

But Unison CAN watch for file changes in real-time. Just add the line

repeat = watch

to your Unison profile. Unison will detect changes with its own (external) file-watcher utility unison-fsmonitor that communicates directly with Unison. For some more information, check out the changelog for unison 2.48.3 with major changes to unison-fsmonitor.

But if you really want something to watch for changes and then tell Unison to run, you should look at inotify-tools, although I don't recommend doing that.

Upvotes: 3

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