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Call for help! Looking for contributors for pylsyncd : Python Live Syncing Daemon

Are you looking for a fast and reliable solution to keep contents synchronized among different systems in different locations? Either if you want to synchronize a few contents or even several terabytes of data, pylsyncd may be the right solution for you.

The application pylsyncd stands for Python Live Syncing Daemon and is a clear alternative to lsyncd. At a lower level, pylsyncd is written in python. It uses pyinotify to detect changes in the files and then launches rsync processes to keep everything properly synchronized.

Apart from being way more efficient than it's C-programmed counterpart, pylsyncd offers many more features and mechanisms that improve both performance and reliability, being the main advantage of pylsyncd against lsyncd is that it uses message queues in order to synchronize in a parallel way several destination servers, saving up time when it is required to have more than one destination. It has been tested in heavy loaded environments of over 70TeraBytes.

At this stage, we have tested thoroughly each and any part of pylsyncd. We have several people from all over the world using pylsyncd in production for over half a year now, with no issues, under heavy load environments, moving several TeraBytes of data. There are already some contributors to the source code, but we are looking to expand our community and make this promising project even larger.

Either if you could ever be a potential user of this application or not, if you are somewhat skilled in python, you are very welcome to come by and give us a hand, not only by improving the source code, applying QA or making performance tweaks. There are a lot of features that still need to be implemented.

We count on you!