Anything-sync-daemon - keep ANYTHING in tmpfs and sync'ed

Question

Quite a few people like and use profile-sync-daemon.  I have received several requests now asking for a more general version that will allow the flexibility of syncing anything from tmpfs <--> hdd and back again.  I just uploaded the first public release of anything-sync-daemon in response to the requests.  I am currently working on the wiki page, but I have already written a full manpage that is included with the util.  As with anything, BACKUP the data you wish to sync before using it.
What are some example directories you might want to sync to tmpfs?
/srv/http
/foo/bar
/var/lib/monitorix
AUR Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58263
Wiki Page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/An … ync-daemon
Gitrepo if you just wanna browse the code (it is VERY simplistic): https://github.com/graysky2/anything-sync-daemon
Last edited by graysky (2012-09-22 15:00:04)

Answer 1

I'm having sort of troubles: it doesn't seem to mount anything into /shm...
I told it to keep sync'ed /var/log and my chromium config (yes i don't like to have 2 daemons running, doing the same thing).
So this is my asd.conf:
# /etc/asd.conf
# For documentation, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon
# Define where data will reside in tmpfs
# Think hard about this if using utils like bleachbit as it has a nasty habbit
# of nuking files it identifies as junk in /tmp
# A safer location for things is actually /dev/shm
# This location must be mounted to tmpfs and MUST have permissions of 777
# Use NO trailing backslash!
TMPFS="/dev/shm"
# Define the target(s) directories in the WHATTOSYNC array
# Do NOT define a file! These MUST be directories!
# Note that the target directories and all subdirs under them will be included
# In other words, this is recursive
# Below is an example to wet your appetite
#WHATTOSYNC=('/var/log' '/srv/http' '/home/foo/bar')
WHATTOSYNC=('/var/log' '/home/federico/.config/chromium')
and this is my /etc/mtab:
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1027028k,nr_inodes=218985,mode=755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=614400k 0 0
/var/tmp /var/tmp tmpfs rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/federico/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0
So, don't know where is the problem... my /var/log folder is 65Mb, but if i run df -h, then, this is its output:
File system Dim. Usati Dispon. Uso% Montato su
rootfs 231G 31G 189G 14% /
/dev/root 231G 31G 189G 14% /
devtmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /dev
run 1004M 344K 1003M 1% /run
shm 1004M 152K 1003M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 600M 9,4M 591M 2% /tmp
/var/tmp 1004M 84K 1004M 1% /var/tmp
Thanks for the help!