Two way sync with rsync

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I have a folder a  and a remote folder A   I now run something like this on a Makefile   get-music   rsync -avzru server  media 10001 music   media Incoming music   put-music   rsync -avzru  media Incoming music  server  media 10001 music   sync-music  get-music put-music   when I make sync-music  it first gets all the diffs from server to local and then the opposite  sending all the diffs from local to server   This works very well only if there are just updates or new files on the future  If there are deletions  it doesn t do anything   In rsync there is --delete and --delete-after options to help accomplish what I want but thing is  it doesn t work on a 2-way-sync   If I want to delete server files on a syn  when local files have been deleted  it works  but if  for some reason  explained after  I have some files that aren t in the server but exist locally and they were deleted  I want locally to remove them and not server copied  as it happens    Thing is I have 3 machines in context    desktop notebook home-server   So  sometimes  server will have files that were deleted with a notebook sync  for example and then  when I run a sync with my desktop  where the deleted server files still exist on  I want these files to be deleted and not to be copied again to the server   I guess this is only possible with a database and track of operations  P  Any simpler solutions  Thank you

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I m not sure whether it works with two syncing but for the --delete to work you also need to add the --recursive parameter as well

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You might use Osync  http   www netpower fr osync   which is rsync based with intelligent deletion propagation  it has also multiple options like resuming a halted execution  soft deletion  and time control

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Try Unison  http   www cis upenn edu  bcpierce unison   Syntax   unison dirA  dirB    Unison asks what to do when files are different  but you can automate the process by using the following which accepts default  nonconflicting  options   unison -auto dirA  dirB   unison -batch dirA  dirB  asks no questions at all  and writes to output how many files were ignored  because they conflicted

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I m now using SparkleShare https   www sparkleshare org   works on mac  linux and windows

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You could also try bitpocket  https   github com sickill bitpocket

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Rclone is what you are looking for  Rclone   rsync for cloud storage   is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers including local filesystems  Rclone was previously known as Swiftsync and has been available since 2013

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Since the original question also involves a desktop and laptop and example involving music files  hence he s probably using a GUI   I d also mention one of the best bi-directional  multi-platform  free and open source programs to date  FreeFileSync   It s GUI based  very fast and intuitive  comes with filtering and many other options  including the ability to remote connect  to view and interactively manage  collisions   in example  files with similar timestamps  and to switch between bidirectional transfer  mirroring and so on

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You could try csync  it is the sync engine under the hood of owncloud

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You can use cloudsync to keep a folder in-sync with a remote   pip install cloudsync pip install cloudsync-gdrive cloudsync sync file c  users me documents gdrive  mydocs   If the remote is NFS  you can use   cloudsync sync file c  users me documents  file  mnt nfs whatevs

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Try this   get-music   rsync -avzru --delete-excluded server  media 10001 music   media Incoming music   put-music   rsync -avzru --delete-excluded  media Incoming music  server  media 10001 music   sync-music  get-music put-music   I just test this and it worked for me  I m doing a 2-way sync between Windows7  using cygwin with the rsync package installed  and FreeNAS fileserver  FreeNAS runs on FreeBSD with rsync package pre-installed

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