Find to sync large files
Project description
This program is a wrapper around rsync. It will help you:
if you need to sync files from remote server frequently
No need to keep the location of the file in your mind. It finds them for you.
Requirements
Python >= 2.6 (Python >= 2.7 for tests)
rsync installed
locate installed with up-to-date database on the remote system
SSH Configuration
Make sure you have an SSH configuration file in your $HOME directory. This tends to be very useful, as it keeps all necessary logins and ssh server access configurations, e.g.:
Host spameggs Hostname 12.112.11.122 Compression yes CompressionLevel 9 User guido Host example2 HostName example2.examples.com User johndoe Port 22
Examples
Syncing ZODB from remote server configured in ~/.ssh/config as spameggs:
$ zyklop spameggs Data.fs
Motivation
I’m dealing with Zope servers most of my time. Some of them have a huge Data.fs - an object oriented database. I do have in 99% of the cases an older version of the clients database on my PC. Copying the whole database will take me ages. Using rsync and simply downloading a binary patch makes updating my local database a quick thing.
To summarize, with zyklop I’d like to address two things:
Downloading large ZODBs takes a long time and bandwidth. I simply don’t want to wait that long and download that much.
Most of the time I can not remember the exact path where the item to copy is on the remote server.
TODO
sudo support on the remote server
support for copying if SSH expects a terminal
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