Huge directory tree: Get files to sync via tools like sysdig

[Karl O. Pinc]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:55:51 +0100
Axel Kittenberger <axkibe at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Has someone experience with collecting the changed files
> > with a third party tool which detects which files were changed?  
> 
> I don't know of sysdig but am the developer of Lsyncd which does
> exactly that, collect file changes via inotify event mechanism and
> then calls rsync with a matching filter mask.
> 
> However, since you say, your directory tree is hugh, the main issue
> is that for every directory an inotify watch must be created, taking
> about 1KB of kernel memory per watch.

Not only that, but inotify is not guaranteed.  (At least not on
3.16.0.  Can't say regards later versions.)  So you might miss some
changes.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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