agherzan / syncit

Sync files, directories or the entire file-system with durability in mind

syncit

This small tool provides the ability to sync files or directories while ensuring durability.

It supports:

• sync to disk a file or a directory while making sure the parent directory is fsync'ed too
• sync to disk all the buffered modifications
• sync to disk the filesystem on which a specific file resides

Install

Do you like Arch Linux? You're in luck: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/syncit/ . Cheers to <gergely [at] imreh [dot] net>!

Otherwise:

make
make install

How to use

When ran without file argument it will behave as a normal sync. When a file argument is provided the tool will fsync the file (which can be a directory too) and the parent directory to ensure durability of data. When -f option is used, it will sync the entire filesystem the specified file resides on.

Check help:

syncit --help

Contributions

Want to contribute? Great! Throw pull requests at us.

syncit's Issues

Building the package with an AUR helps makes revision not available in version

Because arch doesn't build the package in a git repository, the compilation throws errors like:

git rev-parse --short HEAD | tr -d "\n" >> /tmp/yaourt-tmp-andrei/aur-syncit/src/syncit-0.0.1/include/version.h
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tmp)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

As well at runtime the revision is unset:

andrei@carbonA ~ $ syncit --help
syncit v0.0.1+
Usage: syncit [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-f file] [file]
andrei@carbonA ~ $ syncit -v
v0.0.1+

CC @imrehg