Puppysync

Introduction

Puppysync is a directory synchronisation tool along the same lines as rsync, but with no installation needed on the target machine.

I've tried to make this as host friendly as possible:

All operations are carried out through ssh
Only one ssh connection is needed for all work
Nothing, other than Perl, needs to be installed on the target machine
No daemons are started
No ports are opened on the target machine
No disc writes other than the transfers themselves. No temporary files
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Install

Grab puppysync-2.tar.gz
Unpack
make
make install

Using

man puppysync will tell you more.

You'll want to set up your authorized_keys files so Puppysync can connect to the destination server without having to ask for a password every time.

Be cautious, run with -n first to test what would happen. Version 2 is a substantial rewrite, please report bugs.

Examples

puppysync ~/www/mysite/ user@host:mainwebsite_html/

You can also sync between two remote hosts. This isn't particularly efficient as all data is transferred via the controlling machine:

puppysync user1@host1:public_html user2@host2:public_html