Run Rsync as daemon

Friends,

We all know rsync is a good tool to sync files/directories.
Every time your want to sync, you need to run rsync commands. But what if you want to run rsync as a  daemon? Every change in the source will be synced to destination location manually?

Below is a small script to do this

On source location 

archival@cme103:~$ mkdir rsync-as-daemon ;cd rsync-as-daemon

archival@cme103:~$touch /home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsync.lock;touch /home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsync.log

archival@cme103:~$ cat rsyncd.conf

pid file = /home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsyncd.pid

lock file = /home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsync.lock

log file = /home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsync.log

use chroot = false

port = 15000

reverse lookup = no

[app_logs]

path = /home/archival/log/

comment = Logs Rsync

read only = true

timeout = 300

Now run rsync as a daemon

archival@cme103:~$ rsync --daemon --config=/home/archival/rsync-as-daemon/rsyncd.conf

On Destination Please configure as below

logmanager@ip-10-101-2-145:~ mkdir rsync-client;cd rsync-client

logmanager@ip-10-101-2-145:~ cat rsync_client.sh

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname $0)
cd $SCRIPT_DIR
TARGET_BASE_DIR="/opt/rsync_logs/"
RSYNC_INCLUDES="$SCRIPT_DIR/rsync_includes.cfg"
while true ;
do
    SERVER_URL=($(cat "$SCRIPT_DIR/rsync_url.list" | xargs))
    for URL in "${SERVER_URL[@]}"
    do
        IP=$(echo $URL | cut -d':' -f 1)
        TARGET_DIR="$TARGET_BASE_DIR/$IP"
        if [ ! -f $TARGET_DIR ]; then
            mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR
        fi
        rsync -rtm --append --include-from $RSYNC_INCLUDES --exclude '*' rsync://${URL} ${TARGET_DIR}
    done
done

logmanager@ip-10-101-2-145:~/rsync-client$ cat rsync_includes.cfg
### Directories and file that should be synced  
*/
platform*.log

logmanager@ip-10-101-2-145:~/ rsync-client$ cat rsync_url.list
## URL for Rsync
192.168.201.103:15000/app_logs/

Now run rsync client

logmanager@ip-10-101-2-145:~/rsync-client$/home/logmanager/rsync-client/rsync_client.sh