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How to keep two directories in sync using lsyncd on Linux

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linuxconfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) is a free and open source we can use to keep a source and a target directory tree in sync. Written in the LUA programming language, it works by keeping track of filesystem events on the source, and replicating them on the target, typically using tools like rsync and ssh, under the hood. In this tutorial, we learn how to install lsyncd on the most used Linux distributions, and how to configure it to keep local and remote directories in sync.

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