smessmer / mirall

Repository for the ownCloud Desktop Syncing Client

Mirall

Introduction

Mirall synchronizes your folders with another computer.

The ultimate goals of Mirall are:

• Network location aware: should not try to sync against your NAS if you are not in the home network
• It is a zero-interaction tool. So forget about resolving conflicts.
• It should work silently and realiably.

Mirall is in early stages of development, and may still eat your files or hang your computer.

• Network location awareness not implemented yet
• Current version supports local and remote (sftp and smb) folders.
• It is powered by csync (http://www.csync.org), however the user does not know and other tools will be incorporated to provide other functionality.

Current issues

• No sane way to backup conflicting versions yet, this should be solved in a near csync release (--conflictcopy, available in Jann's branch). Right now the newest copy wins.
• You can't remove folder configurations Workaround: delete ~/.local/share/data/Mirall/folders/$alias and restart
• Some tasks block the GUI (initial setup of watchers)
• May be some concurrency issues

Roadmap

• Improve robustness to minimize user interaction
• Improve feedback and sync results
• Add support for other folder types: tarsnap, duplicity, git (SparkleShare)

Requirements

• Linux (currently it uses inotify to detect file changes)
• unison installed in the local and remote machine (you should not care if you got Mirall with your favorite distribution)

Download

openSUSE

• Refer to the download page http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/

Source code

• https://github.com/owncloud/mirall

Building the source code

You need Qt 4.7 and cmake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

To generate a tarball:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make package_source

Authors

• Duncan Mac-Vicar P. [email protected]
• Klaas Freitag [email protected]
• Daniel Molkentin [email protected]

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.