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It is now here: https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/continual-sync

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Introduction

This is the README for "continual-sync", a tool to efficiently keep a directory synchronised with its mirror. It uses rsync and the inotify change notification mechanism to ensure that rsync does as little work as possible.

Documentation

Manual pages are included in this distribution. See "man continual-sync", "man watchdir", and "man continual-sync.conf".

Compilation

To compile the package, type "make". Use "make install" to install it.

Author

This package is copyright (C) 2021 Andrew Wood, and is being distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For more details, see the file "COPYING".

You can contact me by using the contact form on my web page at http://www.ivarch.com/.

The "continual-sync" home page is at:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/continual-sync.shtml

The latest version can always be found here.