GSYNC(in develop)

Introduction

intruction

• like onedrive command line version, gsync is a free, open source, server-config support command line sync tool based on git.
• why I developed this: it is hard for me to find a good sync tool in linux command line! Althougn I know git itself is good enough to be a sync tool. but i am tired of commiting files when i left my laptop in my bed room.And also, in some cases, I do not care the version control so much, I just want to make it easier to sync files on the different laptops.

features

• open source and free
• no speed limit
• safe, gsyncis based on your own server
• multiple sync modes: on file changed, on file closed, on minutes.

Installation

prerequisite

• git
• ssh

install

./install.sh

usage

1. we strongly recommend you to create a new account on your remote server. Use the following command to create a new user. And remember this name, we will use it to configure the sync.

	useradd <YOUR_USER_NAME>

2. Install gsync use the install shell script. do as the prompt guides

	cd gsync
	./install

3. To create a new sync directory. use the following command.After that, ever change in the directory will be synced to your server.

	gsync track /path/to/the/directory

4. When you want to use in another computer, just install as step2. To see what can be synced, use the following command.

	gsync list --available
	gsync list --local # to see the repo tracked on this computer
	gsync list --all   # to print all the repos both in the remote and local
	gsync list # the short pattern of gsync --all

5. To add a remote repo to local and track it. use the following command.

	gsync track --online  repo_name

6. To untrack a repo

	gsync untrack --online repo_name

7. We strongly recommend you to set gsync start on boot. use the following command.

	gsync daemon --start
	gsync daemon --stop
	gsync daemon --enable
	gsync daemon --disable
	gsync daemon --status

8. You can see the logs to see if gsync went well.

	gsync log

9. If you want to change your server(to-do)

	gsync reconfig

TODO

• add GUI support
• add github server support
  • if you have your own server
  • if you do not have your own server, use github
• add web server like gitlab