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 ## Introduction
 
-This repo contains a simple script used to sync the dns and cname configuration
+This repo contains simple scripts used to sync the dns and cname configuration
 files from a primary pihole server to a secondary pihole server.
 
+* pihole-dns-sync_via-ssh.sh
+  * runs on the secondary pihole and pulls from the primary via ssh
+
+* pihole-dns-sync_local.sh
+  * runs on a host mounting common storage between the two pihole instances (ie, for k8s deployment)
+  * copies the files from the primary pihole instance storage to the secondary pihole instance storage
+
diff --git a/pihole-dns-sync_local.sh b/pihole-dns-sync_local.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# base directory path
+basepath='/mnt/k8s-storage/pihole'
+srcdir='pihole-1'
+dstdir='pihole-2'
+# declare and populate indexed sync array
+syncarray=('etc-pihole/custom.list' 'etc-dnsmasq-d/05-pihole-custom-cname.conf')
+
+curdate=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)
+
+echo "pihole dns sync run: ${curdate}"
+
+for i in "${syncarray[@]}"
+do
+    echo "syncing $i"
+    echo cp ${basepath}/${srcdir}/${i} ${basepath}/${dstdir}/${i}
+done
+
+echo "pihole dns sync run completed"
+
diff --git a/pihole-dns-sync.sh b/pihole-dns-sync_via-ssh.sh
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rename from pihole-dns-sync.sh
rename to pihole-dns-sync_via-ssh.sh