Description : Background document up- and down-loader. This daemon synchronizes your files to an FTP-server, or folder thereon. To combat the problem of clogging your internet line with data, only TEXT and ZIP files are included. Therefor, it is safe to specify your $HOME directory as a local source.
You may not know, but .ODT and -- heaven forbid -- .DOCX files are also PK-compressed. In summary, this tool copies: program source code, and office documents/databases. Of course, only files which have changed are moved. This is done by opening a local file descriptor, then connecting using a builtin library, and saving or loading data as neccessary. Connections can be quite easily aborted (and safely) due to our atomic meta-data structure. This makes it great for roaming laptops. One of the main features of this program, is that it does not rely on date or time. This is an advantage for poorly maintained servers (I have seen a few) and especially ones in different countries. We do this instead heuristically: if a file is bigger, it is newer, etc. Although, at the end of the day, a local file will not be replaced with a remote one, if it hasn't yet been uploaded (safety check.) As such, the biggest limitation of our software, is that is single-user. However, that does not mean single-computer! This is the advantage CIFS has over us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
