Lsyncd stands for “Live Syncing Daemon“, as the name suggest lsyncd is used to sync or replicate files & directories locally and remotely after a specific time of interval. It uses rsync & ssh in the backend.
Lsyncd works on Master and Slave architecture where it monitors the directory on the master server, if any changes or modification are done then lsyncd will replicate the same on its slave servers after specific interval of time.
In this article we will discuss how to install and use lsyncd on CentOS 7 & RHEL 7.
Scenario : Suppose want to sync the folder “/var/www/html” from Master server to Slave server
- Master Server’s IP = 192.168.1.14
- Slave Server’s IP = 192.168.1.15
- Directory to be Sync = /var/www/html
First Enable Key based authentication between Master and Slave Server.
Login to Master server & generate the public and Private keys using ssh-keygen command.
Now Copy the public key using ssh-copy-id command to slave server
[[email protected] ~]# ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
Step:1 Login to Master Server and Install Lsyncd Package
Install the lsyncd dependency packages using below yum command.
[[email protected] ~]# yum install lua lua-devel pkgconfig gcc asciidoc
To install lsyncd package using yum command , first enable the EPEL repo as lsyncd rpm is not available in the default repos.
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm [[email protected] ~]# yum install lsyncd
Step:2 Set up Configuration File of Lsyncd
Copy the sample Configuration to /etc/lsyncd.conf
[[email protected] ~]# cp /usr/share/doc/lsyncd-2.1.5/examples/lrsync.lua /etc/lsyncd.conf
Add the following Lines to the config file.
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/lsyncd.conf ---- -- User configuration file for lsyncd. -- -- Simple example for default rsync. -- settings = { logfile = "/var/log/lsyncd.log", statusFile = "/var/log/lsyncd.stat", statusInterval = 2, } sync{ default.rsync, source="/var/www/html", target="192.168.1.15:/var/www/html", rsync={rsh ="/usr/bin/ssh -l root -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa",} } [[email protected] ~]#
Step:3 Start the Service and enable it at reboot
[[email protected] ~]# systemctl start lsyncd [[email protected] ~]# systemctl enable lsyncd ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/lsyncd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lsyncd.service'
Step:4 Analyze the Replication and Logs Report.
As we can see that we are using “root” user for syncing data , as per your requirement you can change the user name.
In the log File we can see the status of replication whether the replication is completed or Not.
[[email protected] ~]# tail -10 /var/log/lsyncd.log Sun Jul 26 12:53:04 2015 Normal: recursive startup rsync: /var/www/html/ -> 192.168.1.15:/var/www/html/ Sun Jul 26 12:53:56 2015 Normal: Startup of "/var/www/html/" finished. [[email protected] ~]#
Using Stat file we view the lsyncd status Report. Sample Example is shown below
[[email protected] ~]# more /var/log/lsyncd.stat Lsyncd status report at Sun Jul 26 12:53:58 2015 Sync1 source=/var/www/html/ There are 0 delays Excluding: nothing. Inotify watching 849 directories 1: /var/www/html/ 2: /var/www/html/catalog/ 3: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/ 4: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/module/ 5: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/checkout/ 6: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/api/ 7: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/payment/ 8: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/tool/ 9: /var/www/html/catalog/controller/product/ --------------------- 848: /var/www/html/system/library/db/ 849: /var/www/html/system/modification/ [[email protected] ~]#
Hello,
Thanks for this guide ! For my info, why is gcc needed in this case ?
Best Regards
Thibault
No gcc isn’t needed. I skipped the entire dependency line, this is on a minimal install.
Do you have a working config for multiple hosts with a single target source?
wget ‘http://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/lsyncd-2.2.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm’
rpm -ivh lsyncd-2.2.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
systemctl enable lsyncd
vi /etc/lsyncd.conf
settings {
logfile = “/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log”,
statusFile = “/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.status”,
statusInterval = 5,
insist = true,
nodaemon = yes,
}
sync {
default.rsync,
source = ‘/data/gv1/penguinpages_local_cluster/’,
targetdir = ‘/media/sw2_usb_A2/penguinpages_local_cluster/’,
exclude = {
‘.swp’,
‘.*’,
‘.txt~’
},
rsync= {
archive = true,
compress = true,
temp_dir = “/tmp”,
owner = true,
group = true,
perms = true,
checksum = true,
update = true,
links = true,
times = true,
protect_args=true
},
delay = 3,
ssh = {
user = user,
port = 1234
}
}
[[email protected] ~]# systemctl start lsyncd
[[email protected] ~]# date
Wed Aug 14 08:38:24 EDT 2019
[[email protected] ~]# tail /var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log
[[email protected] ~]# tail /var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.status
[[email protected] ~]#
[[email protected] ~]#
[[email protected] ~]# date
Wed Aug 14 08:51:46 EDT 2019
[[email protected] ~]# tail /var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log
[[email protected] ~]# tail /var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.status
[[email protected] ~]#
No files syncing. I am not sure root of issue. No logs to debug.
Is there a way to configure lsyncd to delete source files and folders after copy them over to a destination?