Rsync to Remote Server

You may want to sync a remote with a your local computer. This happens a lot when working on a VM.

To do so, you may write something like this:

set -gx REMOTE_HOME "/home/username"
set -gx REMOTE_HOST "username@hash.us-east-1.amazon.com"
set -gx LOCAL_DIR_TO_SYNC "$HOME/example_dir"

function start_sync
  while true
    sleep 2
    fd -H . | entr -d rsync -chavzP --stats --exclude-from="$HOME/.ignore" "$LOCAL_DIR_TO_SYNC" "$REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_HOME"
  end
end

This will start syncing your directory over to the remote host, on a 2 second loop.

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Rsync to Remote Server