Table of Contents liveFolderSync Install Auto Install Manual Install Configure and Start

liveFolderSync

Does what it says on the tin. Keeps 2 servers in sync, master/slave style, in real time. As files are write-closed, moved, deleted or created that change is picked up by inotify and sync'd to your target server using rsync over ssh.

Install

The following instructions apply to Centos/RHEL, I've not tested elsewhere.

Auto Install

1. Checkout the latest copy of liveFolderSync to somewhere on your server, eg /usr/local/liveFolderSync
2. Run install.sh

Manual Install

1. The watcher uses inotifywatch, which on Ubuntu is supplied by inotify-tools, so instal that via apt-get
2. Checkout the latest copy of liveFolderSync to somewhere on your server, eg /usr/local/liveFolderSync
3. Install the files using symlink to their various homes
   1. Symlink /usr/local/liveFolderSync to /usr/sbin/liveFolderSync
   2. Symlink /usr/local/init to /etc/init.d/liveFolderSync

Configure and Start

1. Configure your user, base path and destination server in /etc/defaults/liveFolderSync (Be sure the user you use has read permission on the basedir and has a shared SSH key between the servers)
2. Start the daemon with /etc/init.d/liveFolderSync
3. You can run `tail -f /var/log/liveFolderSync.log` to watch activity