pirsyncd

pirsyncd is a daemon to watch a directory for kernel's inotify events and then execute an rsync command to synchronize two different directories (local or remote).

This is a poor man’s mirroring or an alternative (not so) real data replication mechanism and it is based on Pyinotify.

pirsyncd monitors for these inotify events:

 * IN_ATTRIB
 * IN_CLOSE_WRITE
 * IN_CREATE
 * IN_DELETE
 * IN_MODIFY
 * IN_MOVED_TO
 * IN_MOVED_FROM
 * IN_DELETE_SELF

Features:

• There is no need of installation!
• Run as a Daemon
• Can run as a Daemon in foreground
• Simple Configuration, you only have to configure your source and destination directories
• Configuration Check at the begging
• Ability to check and stop the daemon
• Syntax help with --help
• For every parameter there is a usage examples with --examples
• Support multiple running instances
• Mirroring to a remote (destination) server (needs password-less connection) through ssh connection
• Mirroring to a remote (destination) server (needs rsync password-file) through rsync connection
• Error handling via exceptions
• A customized delay for mirroring directories (dont rsync asap when an event is trigged)
• Gets arguments from command line - there is no need of hack the code.
• Synchronization at start (mirroring via rsync) - first run
• Definition of rsync version from command line
• Logging functionality of rsync process
• Partial rsync functionality
• Append rsync functionality
• Functionality to exclude files larger than MAX-SIZE or smaller than MIN-SIZE
• Debugging pyinotify events
• Debugging rsync command
• Autolearning new subdirectories
• Resolving duplicates inode events for multiple files/events
• You can rsync every n (NUMBER) inode events (simple delay method)
• Supports python3 with PIrsyncD.v3
• Clean code and python code styling using pylint
• 7.35 with pylint (previous 7.21) !
• Lines of code (has a lot of comments !) and it is written on KISS principle

What is new in this release:

• Note that this is the last version in Python 2.
• The next version will be only in Python 3.
• Pyinotify.py has been updated to 0.9.1 (20110405).
• An SSH port parameter for synchronization of SSH has been added.
• The trailing slash (/) requirement for source and destination path has been removed.
• Pyinotify.py version 3 for pirsyncd.Py3k has been added.

Requirements:

• Python
• rsync