madand/profile-sync-daemon

#Profile-sync-daemon Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage your browser's profile in tmpfs and to periodically sync it back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This is accomplished via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to maintain back-up and synchronization between the two. One of the major design goals of psd is a completely transparent user experience.

##Supported Browsers

• Chromium
• Conkeror
• Epiphany
• Firefox (stable, beta, and aurora)
• Firefox-trunk (this is an Ubuntu-only browser: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/install-firefox-nightly-from-ubuntu-ppa.html)
• Google Chrome (stable, beta, and dev)
• Heftig's version of Aurora (this is an Arch Linux-only browser: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157)
• Icecat (GNU version of Firefox)
• Iceweasel (Debian version of Firefox)
• Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763)
• Luakit
• Midori
• Opera, Opera-Beta, Opera-Developer, and Opera-Legacy
• Otter-browser
• Palemoon
• QupZilla
• Rekonq
• Seamonkey
• Vivaldi-browser and Vivaldi-browser-snapshot

##Documentation Consult the man page or the wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon

##Installation from Source To build from source, see the included INSTALL text document.

##Installation from Distro Packages

• Agilialinux: in the official repos.
• Exherbo: in the official repos.
• Fedora: in the official repos.
• Gentoo: in the official repos.
• NixOS: in the official repos.
• Void: in the official repos.

• Arch: in the AUR.
• Chakra: in the CCR.
• Debian: in graysky's PPA.
• OpenSUSE: packaged by Overman79.
• Slackware: on slackbuilds.
• Ubuntu: in graysky's PPA.

###Debian Users You must be using AT LEAST Debian 8.0 (Jessie) or have systemd as your init system to use these packages! To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Debian system; do the following as the root user:

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu vivid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu vivid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F0E0B4E7
apt-get update
apt-get install profile-sync-daemon

###Fedora Users Since June of 2013, Profile-sync-daemon is in the official repo. Reference.

sudo yum install profile-sync-daemon

###NixOS Users Currently, you need to be tracking nixos-unstable:

nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos
nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

The NixOS module looks for a services.psd attribute set in your configuration.nix (run nixos-help for all options):

  services.psd = {
    enable = true;
    users = [ "user42" "other_user" ];      # At least one is required
    browsers = [ "firefox" "chromium" ];    # Leave blank to enable all
    useOverlayFS = true; # set to true to enable overlayfs or set to false to use the default sync mode
  };

Then rebuild your system configuration with nixos-rebuild switch.

###Ubuntu Users You must be using AT LEAST Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid) or have systemd as your init system to use these packages! To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu system (packages available for Lucid and newer), and to install psd:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon

###Other Distros If you are interested in packaging psd for your favorite distro, please contact me.