Continual Sync

Current version: 0.4.0 (25 May 2025) [src]

continual-sync is a tool to synchronise one directory tree with another, with rsync, using the inotify mechanism to keep the copy constantly up to date very efficiently by making rsync do as little work as possible.

It can be used to mirror directories between machines asynchronously, for instance backing up your local files to an off-site file server.

The continual-sync tool is intended to be used in the background - set up once and forgotten about. For example, it can be used to back up hundreds of Linux desktops to a central server with no user interaction, and with changes appearing on the central server within minutes of the originals being changed on the desktop.

The package also includes the "watchdir" utility, which writes change notification files when the contents of a directory are altered.

Note that this software will only run on Linux.

This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

To install continual-sync, follow these steps:

curl -O https://ivarch.com/programs/sources/continual-sync-0.4.0.tar.gz
tar xzf continual-sync-0.4.0.tar.gz
cd continual-sync-0.4.0
sh ./configure
make
sudo make install

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News

0.4.0 - 25 May 2025

0.1.0 - 20 August 2023

0.0.6 - 4 September 2021

0.0.5 - 12 December 2014

0.0.4 - 12 August 2014

0.0.3 - 7 August 2014

0.0.2 - 6 August 2014

0.0.1 - 2 August 2014