monitored_rsync

This simple command line tool simply call a inotifywait on a directory (recursively tracking subdirectories) and whenever there is a change, it calls rsync.

There are many uses for this, including a live backup system, a synchronizing way to develop on a local machine (let's say a laptop), and have the code sync'ed up to a server, where presumably compilation happens. Notice this is often better than something like sshfs because it has a copy of all files locally, which greatly speeds up IDEs (sshfs over high-latency connections is annoying to develop, specially for IDEs that are constantly checking if files changed).

Installation

$ go install github.com/janpfeifer/monitored_rsync@latest

Example:

$ monitored_rsync --exclude=.git,.idea ~/Projects/MyProject me@myhost:Projects/MyProject

More options

See --help for several options.

TODO

RSync flags are hard-coded for now :( -- except the --exclude and --dry-run. Someone should create a flag to make it configurable.