File Sync

This bash script watches a directory for file modifications. It syncs these files to a remote server. This runs with no additional dependencies on Ubuntu. It may work just as well with OSX, but haven't tried.

Installation

Copy config.template.sh to .config.sh and update values. Next, run sync.sh. That's all there is to it. Run in the background to keep it out of the way: sync.sh &

Optionally, add the following function to your ~/.basrc file to simplify running persistently in the background. All output will be written to specified file. Now you can run filesync once at startup.

function filesync() {
    BIN_DIR="/path/to/clone/dir/filesync";
    LOG_PATH="$HOME/sync.log";

    killall sync.sh;
    (nohup $BIN_DIR/sync.sh > $LOG_PATH 2> /dev/null &)

    echo "File sync started in background. Logs are being written to $LOG_PATH";
}