Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync for file synchronization?

[Roshan M. <ros...@gm...>]

I assume you have gone to http://www.opensync.org/wiki/doc and did not
find what you were looking for, right?

On 8/27/06, William Lachance <wr...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working a little PyGtk application to synchronize
> files/folders between two desktop computers (e.g.: a workstation and a
> laptop). Thus far, I've been taking the approach of making it call
> Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) via pexpect, but
> I've gotten a bit frustrated with some of its limitations. My most
> recent irk is that it doesn't allow you to synchronize a folder with
> another machine unless all the parent folders also exist on such a
> machine.
>
> I'm interested in trying opensync as an alternative. I don't have a
> problem using/contributing-to alpha-level software, but I have to
> admit I'm having a bit of trouble getting to grips with the
> documentation/source.
>
> >From a systems-level point of view, what I'm looking to do is have a
> daemon running on each machine which can accept a "synchronization
> request" on a network port (ideally over an encrypted channel), then
> proceed with synchronizing a set of paths (with a set of files of
> arbitrary size) on both machines. If there are conflicts during the
> synchronization, I'd like to provide the user some way of resolving
> them.
>
> Is this something I could set up with the OpenSync infrastructure? If
> not, what kind of work would be required to get that going? If so, are
> there any examples of doing this lurking about? (I couldn't find any
> on the website)
> --
> William Lachance
> wr...@gm...
>
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