rsyncer

rsyncer is a simple rsync wrapper for python.

Prerequisites

You need to have an rsync installation on your system and added to your system's path.

Installation

1. download this repository
2. from within this repo run make install
3. test installation by importing rsyncer in a python shell

Usage

You can choose between the simple One-Function-Call and the more powerful Syncer utility to run rsync commands using rsyncer.

The One-Function-Call

This is the simplest usage of rsyncer. You can just call the rsync function with the necessary arguments to run a rsync command. This function will return a boolean indicating if the process finished successfully or not:

from rsyncer.rsync import rsync

suc = rsync(...)
if suc:
    print("rsync run successfully.")
else:
    print("There was an error running rsync.")

The more powerful Syncer object

With this utility, you get a larger set of functionalities like

• creating a rsync command
• running a rsync command
• get the current progress of a running rsync process
• ...

Mark: rsyncer.rsync.Syncer creates a temporary files in /tmp where rsync's output is written to. Therefore, a Syncer should be closed when you are done working with it (The rsync subprocess will not be killed).

You can either create a Syncer object and use its close() (or exit(), which will kill the rsync process) method in the end, or you can use a Syncer within a with statement:

from rsyncer import rsync

s = rsync.Syncer(...)
s.run()
s.get_command()
s.progress()
# and/or other operations
s.close() # or s.exit() if you want to kill the rsync process as well

from rsyncer import rsync

with rsync.Syncer(...) as s:
    s.run()
    s.get_command()
    s.progress()
    # and/or other operations

Examples

As far as possible, we provide a One-Function-Call and a Syncer implementation for each example.

Syncing a single file

$ rsync /path/to/file /path/to/destination

One-Function-Call

from rsyncer import rsync

rsync.rsync(source="/path/to/file", dest="/path/to/destination")

Syncer

from rsyncer import rsync

with rsync.Syncer(source="/path/to/file", dest="/path/to/destination") as s:
    s.run()

Syncing a directory

$ rsync /path/to/dir /path/to/destination

One-Function-Call

from rsyncer import rsync

rsync.rsync(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination")

Syncer

from rsyncer import rsync

with rsync.Syncer(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination") as s:
    s.run()

Syncing a directory using a remote source

$ rsync -a user@server.org:/path/to/dir /path/to/destination

One-Function-Call

from rsyncer import rsync

rsync.rsync(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination", source_ssh="user@server.org")

Syncer

from rsyncer import rsync

with rsync.Syncer(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination", source_ssh="user@server.org") as s:
    s.run()

Exclude a file

$ rsync /path/to/dir /path/to/destination --exclude /path/to/dir/tmp.txt

One-Function-Call

from rsyncer import rsync

rsync.rsync(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination", excludes=["/path/to/dir/tmp.txt"])

Syncer

from rsyncer import rsync

with rsync.Syncer(source="/path/to/dir", dest="/path/to/destination", excludes=["/path/to/dir/tmp.txt"]) as s:
    s.run()