rsync in container

Both rsync server and client running in a docker container.

server

This server is based off of https://github.com/bfosberry/rsync with a few modifications.

Usage

Launch the container via docker:

  $ docker run -d -p 873 \
    -e USERNAME="myuser" \
    -e PASSWORD="mypassword" \
    -v /your/data-folder:/data betacz/rsync:server

In default, rsync server accepts a connection only from 192.168.0.0/16 and 172.12.0.0/12 for security reasons. You can override via an environment variable like this:

$ docker run -d -p 873 -e ALLOW='10.0.0.0/8 x.x.x.x/y' betacz/rsync:server

client

This client supports run rsync periodically.

Usage

$  docker run -d -v /your/data-folder:/data \
   -e SERVER_ADDR=<server>  \
   -e PORT=<port> \
   -e USER=<username> \
   -e RSYNC_PASSWORD=<password>  \
   -e DATA_TARGET=<target_folder> \
   -e SCHEDULE="<schedule>" \
   betacz/rsync:client <rsync options>

Schedule

Schedule can assigned as following syntax:

• "15min": every 15 minutes.
• "hourly": 0 minute every hour.
• "daily": 02:00 every day.
• "weekly": 03:00 on Sunday every week.
• "monthly": 05:00 on 1st every month.
• "5/* * * * *": any schedule by crontab syntax

License

Released under the GPL2 License.