Py-Sync-Vulture

The python script to synchronize files between local to another location in same machine.

The script sync.py used to synchronize files between locals in the same machine.

How to use it:

• Update Makefile with the SOURCE & DESTINATION folders. The path should be from root.
• Run make install-python-deps to install python Dependencies for this project.
• To start sync make sync this will start synn between source and destination.

Note: If you want this sync to do bidirectional please check the following instructions.

• The sync can also be run with this command python3 sync.py -src='SOURCE_PATH' -dest='DESTINATION_PATH
• So to make is work for bidirectional run the above command twice one with

SOURCE_PATH->DESTINATION_PATH & DESTINATION_PATH->SOURCE_PATH

CRONTAB

If you to run this in CRON, created a crontab file called /Users/aravindkumar/etc/crontab, that looks like this:

*/5 * * * * ~/FILE_STORED_PATH/sync.py -src='SOURCE_PATH' -dest='DESTINATION_PATH >/dev/null 2>&1

Then I ran this crontab command to install the job:

crontab /Users/aravindkumar/etc/crontab

Files now auto-sync to /Volumes/Shared every 5 minutes. When there are no files to sync, the script completes in a couple seconds.

Future Goal:

• Sync between two location inside a network of systems