rsync.crontab

#
# Copy logs from the vagrant share (hosted by Windows) to ~/logs
# This is because logstash tracks files using their inode number
# but this number may change each time the vm is booted.
#
# rsync options 
#    -r        recursive
#    -t        transfer file mod times and use to skip files
#    -v        verbose
#    --inplace update files rather than write new and rename
#    --no-W    force delta compression even though source+destination are local
#
 * * * * * flock -n /home/vagrant/rsync-cron-job.lock -c 'echo "";echo "---";date;rsync -rtv --inplace --no-W /vagrant/logs/ /home/vagrant/logs/' >> /home/vagrant/rsync-cron-job.log 2>&1