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loh.tar

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Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 55

folsy - folder synchronization in POSIX sh

Hi Folks!

I suppose the title describes enough what it is about. Here a short quote from the project page as a further explanation.

features or non-features
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- The complete project takes less than 100KB disk space
- It's easy to understand, but perhaps a little cumbersome to set up
- It's not a backup tool!
- It's no daemon!
- No conflict resolution!
- The newest file "wins" (will be copied to/from the server)
- No possibility to exclude some stuff, but you can "flat sync" a folder
- No clutter of "hidden folsy info files" in the synchronized folder
- Certainly is a "sync status file" aka meta data needed, at a place
  of your choice
- Consideration of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, or else $HOME/.config/folsy
- Synchronization of multiple clients over a central server
- The server (or "cloud" as I like to think about it) need no
  special "folsy-stuff", only some kind of "disk-space" offer
- Each client need access to the server and runs folsy itself
- Nothing prevents you from running folsy on the server and take over the
  actions for a client, e.g. to sync your phone

As you can read on the home page, there is no AUR yet. I have planned to create a “git package” for it, but I still have to do some research. If this is finished and no contrary opinions appear here I would like to add it to the wiki, probably there.