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Monday 1 October 2012

Filesync

Need to keep files and documents in sync across multiple Linux machines? Bitpocket provides a no-nonsense solution to the problem. This tiny shell script uses the excellent rsync software to perform the syncing jiggery-pockery. This means that you can have one machine acting as the "main repository", and then have several "client" machines which will be able to sync with it. (This obviously means that all client machines will have the same files). Here is how you configure it.

You can use any remote Linux machine as a syncing hub, provided it has OpenSSH and rsync installed on it The only thing you need to do is to create a directory that will hold master copies of the files, which can be done using two commands (replace user@remotehost with the actual user name and IP address or domain name of the remote machine).