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Before I begin, please accept my apologies for the difficulties I've had in documenting my learning on my blog, which is primarily due to difficulties balancing school and personal learning. Now I see an opportunity to document and share something I recently learned about: ***How to Synchronize Vagrant Directories with Host Machine***

First I need to ask this question: 
<center>Why do we need to Sync the Vagrant Directory with our Host Machine?</center>

The obvious reason for this is so that we can recover our critical files or scripts if the host machine is destroyed. This is why it is critical to understand how to do it.

**PREREQUITE:**

- Knowing Basic Shell Commands
- A Provisioned Vagrant Linux machine
- Git Bash or Visual Studio code

So we begin:

To do this, I changed my directory to where my vagrant machine is located in my system, so I can edit my vagrant file. I am using the terminal of my Visual Studio Code to do this. 


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_09_52 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t6zNo9aLghBzB5uYdHX9ppsg332vPTsNSG6tgpcEYZRxGVu5zcCGBaPvgXyHCcQKZXE.png)

Since I have different machines in my folder, I would be selecting one and log into that machine. To see the status of the machines in my folder, I input the command ```vagrant global-status```



![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_14_22 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo43PQ9srXQbBzpVsGAa6QEAWUakASgMSfNGauqMq81oAipchZPvo6BzZXcQZMgn3Rt.png)

I would be making use of the master machine which I already have running. if your machine is powered off for instance, to power it up and login, you would need to first run ```vagrant up``` or ```vagrant up machine-name```  for instance, I would run ```vagrant up master``` to powerup my machine. From the image below, you would notice that I have already powered off the machine previously with the command ```vagrant halt```


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_20_26 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo43Nd9HLERGBa1AZjJV9QFuzQryDQjhowWwGKo7bHtUmUs5aGnxzRDNBw7m7csQaGF.png)

Then to log in to the machine, I used the command ```vagrant ssh master``` to do this. 

![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_24_07 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23tGRBzhZmdNAWT9MzzDL3EQeywXDvMFdfVbVjNtfmqyAfHH7Rq1BGkaFxMrRnjLt612a.png)


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_27_19 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo1vVZeqmWULiZoWMX75n6fP9SJyrXotpLNRFsSzookvL353jnsd8iVmPgVTB6HRzyV.png)

##### <center>CREATING A CUSTOM SYNC VAGRANT DIRECTORY TO HOST MACHINE</center>

On the vagrant machine, there is already a sync directory to the host machine which we can find when we run the command ```cd /vagrant```... So if we create a folder in that directory, it would automatically save in the directory of our host machine. 

![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 10_59_57 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t6zEAJhcyhVLCoeVi3usuJeXoYQ2HJdCWzi7H7swrD8SmhbKv6VZWYAGogcYeN53Tcq.png)

The folder at the left side of the VS code is the directory of my host machine. You would see that after I enter into the vagrant directory, I would find the same folders and items on my host machine also in the vagrant machine. 

To prove this, I would run the command ``ls`` to show all the folders and files in the vagrant directory.


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_04_29 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23tRr92ZroaH25mckxKwzab4jNs9JqSTZERVS9d7GnZXjo7yY9LXLyQBXa8rujgVjgZDw.png)

Note: The .vagrant directory in the host machine is a hidden directory which can only be viewed if the command ``ls -a`` is run

![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_07_45 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23tRrWC5h8sxhRLDS3GR94kuH3qUsid3DSjZodhSjk2dFsYuvTJDGoHxxStXraqc1PJmD.png)

In this ``/vagrant`` directory, any file or folder we create in the vagrant machine would automatically be saved on the host machine as well. 

But what if we want to save it somewhere else, maybe a custom directory of our choice, how do we do it? To do this we need to edit the Vagrantfile and put in the config line below in it.

<center>```config.vm.synced_folder "/path/host/dir", "/path/vm/dir"```</center>

The /path/host/dir is the directory location on your host machine where you would like your files to be sync to, while the /path/vm/dir is the directory location on your Virtual Machine where you would want the host machine to sync to.

So I would create a new folder on my desktop and then sync that folder to my virtual machine. In the Image below, I create a folder on my desktop and named it **starstrings01 scritps**.


![Desktop 12_3_2022 11_24_33 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo1wQK7T49YXRqJSrEKb7r9NHvTKgJDYXbEySd4eDjj5sjku5ksMXNy93R88cVYK8yv.png)

Then I open the folder to copy the file path: ```C:\Users\Gifted-Dev\Desktop\starstrings01 scripts```... Then edit the file path by removing the C: and changing the backwards slashs `(\)` to forward slashes `(/)` to make it: ```/Users/Gifted-Dev/Desktop/starstrings01 scripts```

Then I would be making use of a custom directory for my virtual machine to be: `/opt/scripts`

Therefore the config line I would be adding to my vagrantfile is: 

   <center>`config.vm.synced_folder "/Users/Gifted-Dev/Desktop/starstrings01 scripts", "/opt/scripts"`</center>

Which has been added in line 22 of my Vagrantfile

![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_36_36 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/48FDqd13NZpWjzyfGiEcF1ii4NZRq7umiHmZ4noYSNgidYDyk9g98gdsKSd41MTXYM.png)


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_39_40 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t6zfm2q5o4SUmeCHhqiu8Gs5sMgwAQkz9tgAbVXTErpDVyepHCYcp47LHjPLyDAFSvZ.png)

Obviously, your vagrantfile may not look like mine, you only have to uncomment this line in your vagrantfile and make necessary changes to your preferred path.


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_43_31 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23tGRVPFA8euWmgudZNx2ooku9EbgKpTefVufJngiqDacKUK4fTbCdb29N2zn9zW1XzU5.png)

After changes has been made, reload your vagrant machine to save changes by using the ```vagrant reload``` command. While it is being loaded, your sync directory path would be shown in the logs. After then you ssh (log in) into your machine.


![Vagrantfile - machines - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_47_07 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t6zbLHA4RfVzPLuzrToTU4MCJfKpc3NZe9W8yavtALeBXiz3Wjv2gUUExDu9BwAweDz.png)


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![Get Started - starstrings01 scripts - Visual Studio Code 12_3_2022 11_58_30 PM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t6zyZj6MnXzb42aGfzyMwXAhva434og8NJrYiWoKDcpmjKCJSMTU4XBAkcVneUvDtUP.png)


After you have logged in, then you can change the directory into your new file path....So when I changed the directory to ```/opt/scripts```, the path is empty also because the path is new directory and we haven't created any file in it.

If I create any file in the vagrant machine, automatically it would upload the upload on the host machine. You can see in the image below.


![Get Started - starstrings01 scripts - Visual Studio Code 12_4_2022 3_24_19 AM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23t72Xd85AkeRuAdjsQbiEAUUQvFVtwFpp9U9ipryjtyKEN1YuhucwGbPn2mR2sHpziyN.png)

In the image above, I tried to create 5 files named DevOps.sh. After the file was created in the vagrant machine, it was automatically uploaded in my custom directory i.e starstrings01 scripts folder.


![Get Started - starstrings01 scripts - Visual Studio Code 12_4_2022 3_28_34 AM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo1uwUSV7zxddicmdouWddNSguS8C83oMKnZgWLxsRkZpW3VZYVGQPQTLr5tTyPvD1D.png)


![Get Started - starstrings01 scripts - Visual Studio Code 12_4_2022 3_30_25 AM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/23swdzvMYxHeALhtfaqPuyWD18ciFSGRJdJ3SLLByN3xDadVwDxjVgwLgvdHuQ9JcCvbu.png)


![starstrings01 scripts 12_4_2022 3_31_41 AM.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/starstrings01/Eo1vTqQ8mGUr1GMgRDvEQjR25wcCtVAZZd5LdKDPeakmohMCDDLz4RtfiZSGzwDXTWG.png)

From the above images you see that you have finally been able to create a custom home directory to sync with your vagrant machine.

### SUMMARY

The whole idea of this topic is on how to create a custom directory on your host machine to be able to backup your files if in any case your vagrant machine gets destroyed. And during the course of this lesson we have discussed:

- How to start up your Vagrant machine
- How to check the global Status of your vagrant machines
- How to stop your vagrant machine from running
- How to SSH into a Vagrant machine
- How to check for hidden folders in your vagrant machine
- Finally, how to create a custom directory on your host machine to sync with your vagrant machine.

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