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[Opensync-users] OpenSync for file synchronization?

[William L. <wr...@gm...>]

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...

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

[William L. <wr...@gm...>]

On 8/31/06, Roshan Mansinghani <ros...@gm...> wrote:
> I assume you have gone to http://www.opensync.org/wiki/doc and did not
> find what you were looking for, right?

Right. :)

The closest I've been able to find is this:

http://www.opensync.org/wiki/SetupGuide

.. but even that only deals with file synchronization on a local
machine, which isn't really what I'm interested in.

I don't mind figuring stuff out for myself, but just a few pointers on
what components/utilities I should be looking at would be helpful at
this point.

-- 
William Lachance
wr...@gm...

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

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

On 28 ao=FBt 06, at 04:35, William Lachance wrote:

> 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 synchronize unrelated folders very often. There are at least two =20
ways to do it:
- have several profiles, each one with the root you're interested in =20
synchronizing
- have symbolic links to the directories you want to synchronize and =20
use the "follow" directive

Alan

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

[William L. <wr...@gm...>]

On 9/1/06, Alan Schmitt <ala...@po...> wrote:
> On 28 ao=FBt 06, at 04:35, William Lachance wrote:
>
> > 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 synchronize unrelated folders very often. There are at least two
> ways to do it:
> - have several profiles, each one with the root you're interested in
> synchronizing
> - have symbolic links to the directories you want to synchronize and
> use the "follow" directive

Ah, thanks. The former solution is pretty clever. I'd still be
interested in trying to use OpenSync for this though, not the least
because any work done there might benefit a larger group of people.

Cheers,
--=20
William Lachance
wr...@gm...

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

[Michal S. <re...@at...>]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, William Lachance wrote:

> 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.

Another file synchronization solution which might be useful for you
is iFolder: http://www.ifolder.com

Michal