"Live" Rsync

Tido · 2009-01-12 16:27:56

I'm working in one location and use rsync to send my code to a development server here at work. Currently I make my changes and run rsync manually with something like:

rsync -zrptLv --delete-after -e "ssh" --exclude=.svn /home/code/ devserver:/code/

And that works great, except it's annoying to always have to run that line whenever I change a file. Does anyone know a way to monitor a directory (recursively) for file changes and run rsync when it happens?

marxav · 2009-01-12 16:42:38

something like this maybe pyinotify...

jcolinzheng · 2009-01-12 19:16:57

Either sshfs, or some inotify daemon will do - such as incron (http://inotify.aiken.cz)

Zariel · 2009-01-12 19:54:32

or git ?

rson451 · 2009-01-12 20:03:04

Zariel wrote:

or git ?

+1, sort of. I'm not familiar with git, but with svn he would still have to run at least a svn commit after a change. Version control just makes sense though.

Tido · 2009-01-12 21:13:49

Gah, incron looked so promising until I fiddled with it for an hour only to discover it doesn't scan subdirectories recursively. That's a show-stopper .

jcolinzheng · 2009-01-12 23:08:35

Tido wrote:

Gah, incron looked so promising until I fiddled with it for an hour only to discover it doesn't scan subdirectories recursively. That's a show-stopper .

Oops...Indeed incron can't monitor a whole directory tree. You could try fsniper (http://projects.l3ib.org/trac/fsniper); claimed to be able to do that.

jelly · 2009-01-13 12:04:58

You can use dropbox, it while sync a two pc's. I use it for my work on the university, there i work on a laptop but at home i rather work on my Desktop. So i use dropbox , it's a 2 gb webspace and it also handles subdirectories. There's a wiki about it.;)

Tido · 2009-01-13 16:14:09

I can't do dropbox. Our firewall restrictions would prevent that.

marxav · 2009-01-13 22:49:47

install inotify-tools from the AUR.
Create a script:

#!/bin/sh
while inotifywait -e modify -e create -e delete /home/code/; do
rsync -zrptLv --delete-after -e "ssh" --exclude=.svn /home/code/ devserver:/code/
done

Run it!

bluewind · 2009-01-14 13:09:29

fnsiper works for subdirs and it's damn easy to use. Thanks jcolinzheng. I've also been searching something like this and I always used icrond, which has some strange issues when running commands.

Last edited by bluewind (2009-01-14 13:10:32)

palobo · 2009-03-26 18:05:10

Hey guys.

Personally I haven't tried this but have heard good things. iFolder

Hope it helps.

CHeers,
P.

Arch Linux

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"Live" Rsync

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