orite

A persistant rsync wrapper written in Python

Save a config file and then synchronise your remote and local folders/files. This project is an effort to centralise a sync approach, configure once, add options, and make it simple.

To do this using orite run:

orite -^ 

To do this using rsync run:

rsync --human-readable --info=flist --stats --archive --verbose --partial -ic --progress --dry-run /Users/username/Documents/websites/site_name/stack/folder/ username@127.68.551.54:/home/stack/folder --exclude-from="exclude.txt"

ōrite is a Māori word for ʻthe same’

It's pronounced like this rather than ‘oh-right’.

The problem

FTP apps like Transmit and Cyberduck are good apps and can synchronise content, but they are slow.

The CLI tool rsync is brilliant for this purpose in that it is lightning quick. The problem is that there is a lot to type in. There are a lot of flags to remember, as well as the username, IP address, the remote path, and the exclude file path. I also find it hard to remember to include a slash on the local and exclude a slash on the remote path. Meaning one can copy the entire repo into the wrong folder or just loose amongst your other stuff.

I used to do this kind of thing using Git and a Python library called fabric. Running the fabfile would commit, push, login to the remote server and then pull and restart. Whilst it was accurate it was a little clunky and again not super fast. I moved on from that to running a straight shell script. I ended up with variations of this script in each folder I made.

This is where orite came in.

Installation

pip3 install orite

Or download the orite folder and alias orite.py in your bash profile.

alias orite='python3 path-to-orite-folder/orite.py'

If you don’t have pip.

sudo easy_install pip

You will also be required to have Python 3 installed.

Update

pip3 install orite --upgrade --no-cache-dir

How to run?

Run orite in the directory above the folder that you would like to sync.

If you haven't used orite in this directory you will be prompted to lay down a config file and a exclude file.

To upload

orite -^ 

To download

orite -v

By default, orite will run in dry-run mode. Use the -r flag to override this and do a sync for real.

The help menu can be seen using

orite -h

This will output the following optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s, --sections        Print the section of the config file to the screen
  -v, --remote_to_local
                        Download. Sync the remote folder to the local folder.
                        Think of -v as a down arrow.
  -^, --local_to_remote
                        Upload. Sync the local folder to the remote folder.
                        Think of -^ as an up arrow.
  -d, --dry_run         Do a dry run. This is the default
  -r, --for_real        Not a dry run, do it for real
  --ssh                 Login using SSH
  --sftp                Login using SFTP
  -C, --initial_copy    Copy the local folder for use in diff.
  -R, --remote_to_remote_copy
                        Sync the remote folder to the local remote copy
  -D, --diff            Compare the local folder to the local remote copy

Multiple servers – one config file

You can enable the config file to have more than one server or folder location. For example, my DEFAULT folder is my Django install and in a very separate location is my CSS folder.

orite -^ will upload (in dry-run mode) to my DEFAULT setting, and

orite CSS -^ will upload to my CSS section settings.

Open the config file in your text editor. Add a section label at the bottom like so

[CSS]

Then add the path_to_local_folder = /path/ on the next line and path_to_remote_folder = /path/ to the line after. If your CSS settings are on the same server as your DEFAULT settings then you don't need to add those details again. Needless to say that if they are on a different server than add those settings to this section too.

Add as many sections as you like.

Run orite -s to get a print out of all the sections in your config file.

Improvements/enhancements

Use orite with watch and have it watch a local directory for changes.

watch -d 'ls path-to-dir/css/ | orite CSS -^'

If you are on a Mac and don't have watch in your CLI. Install it with Homebrew.

brew install watch

For a brief overview of watch use watch -h and read something like this

For more issues and suggested enhancements check out the issues tab.