Bidirectional Vagrant Rsync

Question

I have configured Vagrant to use Rsync shared folders instead of the (incredibly SLOW) vboxsf filesystem provided by VirtualBox by default:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync",
        rsync__args: ["--verbose", "--archive", "-z"]
end

Obviously, there's more configuration, but I found these instructions here and they generally work in synchronizing from the host to the guest.

However, I need the guest to be able to sync back to the host, as some of my build tools are only installed on the guest. How can I sync bidirectionally in the shared folder?

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 14:16

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Consider using a vagrant plugin https://github.com/smerrill/vagrant-rsync-back#vagrant-rsync-back

Install:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-rsync-back

Run:

vagrant rsync-back

It'll rsync the mapped folders from guest to host

answered Sep 13 '16 at 14:16

Let'sTalk

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 19 '19 at 10:13

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Unfortunately no, quote from documentation:

The rsync synced folder does a one-time one-way sync from the machine running to the machine being started by Vagrant.

so better for you to use NFS (or SMB if using a Windows host)

In some cases the default shared folder implementations (such as VirtualBox shared folders) have high performance penalties. If you're seeing less than ideal performance with synced folders,

edited Jan 19 '19 at 10:13

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answered Nov 13 '14 at 11:04

vvchik

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This is false; the vagrant box is visible as a computer on the network. You can `scp` to it or from it as you can see here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31764721/5419599 So you could just do a recursive `scp`. I'm sure there is a way to `rsync` as well, even if not automatically. – Wildcard Dec 24 '15 at 07:22

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 15 '15 at 01:28

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Consider using this vagrant plugin http://github.com/dmatora/vagrant-unison It does realtime bidirectional folder sync

answered Jan 15 '15 at 01:28

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Bidirectional Vagrant Rsync

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