website-zola/content/blog/2024-09-08-sync-working.md

+++ title = "syncing works" [taxonomies] tags = ["self-hosting", "zola", "automation", "systemd"] +++

I am quite 🤩 ecstatic 🤩: I got a seamless sync working between my local Git-controlled site content and my server! The way I did it:

1. use rsync to sync local files to the server in a normal user-owned folder
2. setup another rsync-script owned by the zola user on the server
3. create a systemd unit path and service that syncs these files with the proper ownership to the folders where the zola service watches for changes
4. 💸 profit!

Online resources that helped me with this:

• Using systemd Path Units to Monitor Files and Directories
• How to run systemd service as specific user and group in Linux