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Live Backups with Just Inotify, Rsync, and Bash

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Diego Aurino
Mar 30, 2018

This article shows you an elegant way to synchronize and autobackup folders using only inotifywait and rsync in a Bash script. In general, this solution will be light, inexpensive and, why not say, safer. In essence, only inotify-tools, Rsync, and a while loop are required to complete this mission.

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Diego Aurino

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