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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant
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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

by Alex Braunton
October 2018
Beginner
232 pages
7h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Synced folders with RSync

When using RSync as a synced folder option in Vagrant, it's a slightly more complex setup. RSync can be used when other options for file-syncing are not available, such as the other option we have looked at, basic usage, or in the next section, which is the NFS option.

To start using RSync, our Vagrant file just needs an extra parameter on the config.vm.synced_folders option:

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/files", type: "rsync"
To use this option, both the host machine and Vagrant machine must have rsync installed. Vagrant will attempt to install rsync on the Vagrant machine if possible, if not, it will display an error.

There are additional parameters available to use with the RSync option. Please view ...

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