Right now, I am currently running rsync in two different ways:
rsync -r -avz --delete --progress -e "ssh -p 8443" root#<my_server>:~/app ~/Desktop/;
rsync -r -avz --progress -e "ssh -p 8443" ~/Desktop/app root#<my_server>:~/app/
Obviously the problem here is that if a file doesn't exist on the server, then it gets deleted locally. So if you created a file locally after it synchronized to the server, the first command will run and delete it again locally. If you switch the --delete option to the other command, then the reverse happens.
I've tried experimenting and researching this to do it a few different ways, but I cannot seem to come around to a way that synchronizes changes on both sides depending on what happened first.
An alternative that I saw was Unison, but I have errors with this as well when the version doesn't match between the client and the server.
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I have incron setup and working, i can see things being logged when files are changed.
I've tried my rsync command separately and that works fine. But when rsync in triggered by incron, nothing happens. i explicitly stated all the paths i could see.
here is my incrontab -e
/home/dir/dir/ IN_MODIFY sudo rsync -pogr -e 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsasync1' /home/dir/dir/* root#ipaddress:/home/dir/dir/
i'm working as root right now and executing the command as root. also tried /usr/bin/rsync and that didn't work in addition to sudo rsync etc...
thanks!
Try this in incrontab:
/home/dir/dir/ IN_MODIFY sudo rsync -pogr -e ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsasync1 /home/dir/dir/* root#ipaddress:/home/dir/dir/
In above command I have removed the quotes. Incrontab can not run with Single quote OR double quote.
Remember: Pleas keep the quote while executing in terminal.
I am using rsync to sync a remote server as revision diff of repo for continuous integration, which is working great .
a). export_diff.sh src/revNo
b). rsync -avz -e "ssh -i $ssh_key" --progress ./ src/revNO/ $ssh_user:$target
This is hot-fixing. If I encounter an issue I dont have way to revert the changes.
Is there a better way to revert hotfix changes or any other suggestions would be great.
I am using inotify to watch a directory and sync files between servers using rsync. Syncing works perfectly, and memory usage is mostly not an issue. However, recently a large number of files were added (350k) and this has impacted performance, specifically on CPU. Now when rsync runs, CPU usage spikes to 90%/100% and rsync takes long to complete, there are 650k files being watched/synced.
Is there any way to speed up rsync and only rsync the directory that has been changed? Or alternatively to set up multiple inotifywaits on separate directories. Script being used is below.
UPDATE: I have added the --update flag and usage seems mostly unchanged
#! /bin/bash
EVENTS="CREATE,DELETE,MODIFY,MOVED_FROM,MOVED_TO"
inotifywait -e "$EVENTS" -m -r --format '%:e %f' /var/www/ --exclude '/var/www/.*cache.*' | (
WAITING="";
while true; do
LINE="";
read -t 1 LINE;
if test -z "$LINE"; then
if test ! -z "$WAITING"; then
echo "CHANGE";
WAITING="";
rsync --update -alvzr --exclude '*cache*' --exclude '*.git*' /var/www/* root#secondwebserver:/var/www/
fi;
else
WAITING=1;
fi;
done)
I ended up removing the compression option (z) and upping the WAITING var to 10 (seconds). This seems to have helped, rsync still spikes CPU load but it is shorter lived. Credit goes to an answer on unix stackexchange
You're using rsync to synchronize the root directory of a large tree, so I'm not surprised at the performance loss.
One possible solution is to only synchronize the changed files/directories, instead of the whole root directory.
For instance, file1, file2 and file3 lay under from/dir. When changes are made to these 3 files, use
rsync --update -alvzr from/dir/file1 from/dir/file2 from/dir/file3 to/dir
rather than
rsync --update -alvzr from/dir/* to/dir
But this has a potential bug: rsync won't create directories automatically if target folders don't exist. However, you can use ssh to execute remote command and create directories by yourself.
You may need to set SSH public-key authentication as well, but according to the rsync command line you paste, I assume you've already done this.
reference:
rsync - create all missing parent directories?
rsync: how can I configure it to create target directory on server?
How to use SSH to run a shell script on a remote machine?
SSH error when executing a remote command: "stdin: is not a tty"
I'm new to rsync and have read a bit about excluding files and directories but I don't fully understand and can't seem to get it working.
I'm simply trying to run a backup of all the websites in a server's webroot but don't want any of the CMS's cache files.
Is there away to exclude any directory named cache?
I've tried a lot of things over the weeks (that I don't remember), but more recently I've been trying these sorts of things:
sudo rsync -avzO -e --exclude *cache ssh username#11.22.33.44:/home/ /Users/username/webserver-backups/DEV/home/
and this:
sudo rsync -avzO -e --exclude cache/ ssh username#11.22.33.44:/home/ /Users/username/webserver-backups/DEV/home/
and this:
sudo rsync -avzO -e --exclude */cache/ ssh username#11.22.33.44:/home/ /Users/username/webserver-backups/DEV/home/
and this:
sudo rsync -avzO -e --exclude *cache/ ssh username#11.22.33.44:/home/ /Users/username/webserver-backups/DEV/home/
Sorry if this is easy, I just haven't been able to find info that I understand because they all talk about a path to exclude.
It's just that I don't have a specific path I want to exclude - just a directory name if that makes sense.
rsync --exclude cache/ ....
should work like peaches. I think you might be confusing some things since -e requires an option (like -e "ssh -l ssh-user"). Edit on looking at your command lines a little closer, it turns out this is exactly your problem. You should have said
--exclude cache/ -e ssh
although you could just drop -e ssh since ssh is the default.
I'd also recommend that you look at the filter rules:
rsync -FF ....
That way you can include .rsync-filter files throughout your directory tree, containing things like
-cache/
This makes things way more flexible, make command lines more readable and you can make exceptions inside specific subtrees.
File foo.txt exists on the remote machine at: /home/user/foo.txt
It doesn't exist on the local machine.
I want to delete foo.txt using rsync.
I do not know (and assume for the purposes of this question that I cannot find out) what other files are in /home/user on either the local or remote machines, so I can't just sync the whole directory.
What rsync command can I use to delete foo.txt on the remote machine?
Try this:
rsync -rv --delete --include=foo.txt '--exclude=*' /home/user/ user#remote:/home/user/
(highly recommend running with --dry-run first to test it) Although it seems like it would be easier to use ssh...
ssh user#remote "rm /home/user/foo.txt"
That's a bit trivial, but if, like me, you came to this page looking for a way to delete the content of a directory from remote server using rsync, this is how I did it:
Create an empty mock folder:
mkdir mock
Sync with it:
rsync -arv --delete --dry-run ~/mock/ remote_server:~/dir_to_clean/
Remove --dry-run from the line above to actually do the thing.
As suggested above, use --dry-run to test prior. --delete deletes files on the remote location per the rsync man page.
rsync -rv --delete user#hostname.local:full/path/to/foo.txt
Comment below stating this will list only is incorrect. To list only use --list-only and remove --delete.
Just came across the same problem, needed to use rsync to delete a remote file, as only rsync and no other SSH commands were allowed. The --remove-source-files option (formerly known as --remove-sender-files) did exactly that:
rsync -avPn --remove-source-files remote:/home/user/foo.txt .
rm foo.txt
As always, remove the -n option to really execute this.