salt.states.rsync

State to synchronize files and directories with rsync.

New in version 2016.3.0.

/opt/user-backups:
  rsync.synchronized:
    - source: /home
    - force: True
salt.states.rsync.synchronized(name, source, delete=False, force=False, update=False, passwordfile=None, exclude=None, excludefrom=None, prepare=False, dryrun=False)

Guarantees that the source directory is always copied to the target.

name
Name of the target directory.
source
Source directory.
prepare
Create destination directory if it does not exists.
delete
Delete extraneous files from the destination dirs (True or False)
force
Force deletion of dirs even if not empty
update
Skip files that are newer on the receiver (True or False)
passwordfile
Read daemon-access password from the file (path)
exclude
Exclude files, that matches pattern.
excludefrom
Read exclude patterns from the file (path)
dryrun

Perform a trial run with no changes made. Is the same as doing test=True

New in version 2016.3.1.