zyklop 0.4

Rsync wrapper making syncing easy

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Zyklop ◎
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This program is a wrapper around rsync. It will help you:

* if you need to sync files from remote server frequently
* No need to keep the location of the file in your mind. It finds
them for you.

Requirements
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* Python >= 2.6 (Python >= 2.7 for tests)
* rsync installed
* locate installed with up-to-date database on the remote system


First Steps
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If you are new to ssh, setup an ssh configuration first. If you are
dealing with a lot of servers, giving them an alias makes them easier to
remember and you don't have to type as much.

#. Create an ssh configuration in your SSH home, e.g.::

vim ~/.ssh/config

You can use the following example as a starter::

Host spameggs
Hostname 12.112.11.122
Compression yes
CompressionLevel 9
User guido

but be sure to check the `documentation
<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssh+config+documentation&t=canonical>`_
or the man page (5) for `ssh_config`

#. Make the config only readable for the owner::

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

#. Test if you can login to your configured host using only your
alias::

ssh spameggs

Examples
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#. Syncing ZODB from remote server configured in ``~/.ssh/config``
as spameggs. We choose not the first database, but the second::

$ zyklop spameggs:Data.fs .
Use /opt/otherbuildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs? Y(es)/N(o)/A(bort) n
Use /opt/buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs? Y(es)/N(o)/A(bort) y

#. Syncing a directory providing a path segment::

$ zyklop spameggs:buildout/var/filestorage$ .

#. Syncing a directory which ends with `blobstorage``, excluding any
other `blobstorage` directories with postfixes in the name (e.g.
`blobstorage.old`)::

$ zyklop spameggs:blobstorage$ .

#. Use an **absolute path** if you know exactly where to copy from::

$ zyklop spameggs:/tmp/Data.fs .

#. Syncing a directory which needs higher privileges. We use the
``-s`` argument::

$ zyklop -s spameggs:blobstorage$ .

Known Problems
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I've started zyklop and the command just hangs and seems to be doing
nothing.
This can be caused by paramiko and a not sufficient SSH setup. Make
sure you can login without problems by simply issuing a::

ssh myhost

If that does not solve your problem, try to provide an absolute path
from the source. Sometimes users don't have many privileges on the
remote server and the paramiko just waits for the output of a remote
command::

zyklop myhost:/path/to/file .

Motivation
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I'm dealing with Zope servers most of my time. Some of them have a
*huge* Data.fs - an object oriented database. I do have in 99% of the
cases an older version of the clients database on my PC. Copying the
whole database will take me ages. Using rsync and simply downloading a
binary patch makes updating my local database a quick thing.

To summarize, with zyklop I'd like to address two things:

1. Downloading large ZODBs takes a long time and
bandwidth. I simply don't want to wait that long and download that
much.
2. Most of the time I can not remember the exact path where the item
to copy is on the remote server.

TODO
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* tty support: sometimes needed if SSH is configured to only allow
tty's to connect.
* Don't hang if only password auth is configured for SSH

Development
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If you're interested in hacking, clone zyklop on github:

https://github.com/romanofski/zyklop


CHANGES
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0.4 (2013-02-05)
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* Improved documentation
* Fixed bug, which lead to a hanging command when issuing a remote
command in order to find the target path

0.3 (2013-01-14)
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* Changed host, match parameters: Now you can specify the source
host and path match in one parameter delimited by a column,
similar to scp (e.g. foohost:/path)
* Allow to provide an absolute path to the file you'd like to copy.

0.2 (2012-03-08)
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* Added basic support for using sudo in finding and syncing (rsync)
* Added argparse as dependency as Python 2.6 won't have it
* New positional argument to provide destination to copy
file/directory