Syncany
  • 1. What is Syncany?
    • 1.1. How do I use it?
    • 1.2. Who needs another sync tool?
    • 1.3. What Syncany is not!
    • 1.4. Example Use Cases
  • 2. Installation
    • 2.1. Installation requirements
    • 2.2. Installing the latest release
    • 2.3. Installing the latest snapshot
    • 2.4. Installing from source
  • 3. Getting Started
    • 3.1. Using the graphical user interface (GUI)
    • 3.2. Using the command line interface (CLI)
  • 4. Concepts
    • 4.1. Abstraction for dumb storage through a minimal API
    • 4.2. Minimizing remote disk space through deduplication
    • 4.3. Privacy by design through client-side encryption
    • 4.4. Trace-based synchronization through vector clocks
    • 4.5. Differences and similarities to other tools
    • 4.6. Further Resources
  • 5. Commands
    • 5.1. The sy command
    • 5.2. sy daemon: Start and stop the background process (daemon)
    • 5.3. sy init: Initializing a repository
    • 5.4. sy connect: Connecting to an existing repository
    • 5.5. sy status: Detect and display local changes
    • 5.6. sy up: Detect local changes and upload to repository
    • 5.7. sy ls-remote: Detect and display remote changes
    • 5.8. sy down: Retrieve and apply remote changes
    • 5.9. sy watch: Automatically synchronizes the local folder with the repo
    • 5.10. sy cleanup: Remove old versions from the local database and the repo
    • 5.11. sy restore: Restore older versions of files from the repository
    • 5.12. sy ls: Display current and historic local database
    • 5.13. sy genlink: Create a syncany:// link from an existing local folder
    • 5.14. sy plugin: List, install and remove storage backend plugins
  • 6. Plugins
    • 6.1. About Plugins
    • 6.2. Storage Plugins
    • 6.3. Graphical User Interface Plugin
    • 6.4. Web Interface Plugins
  • 7. Security
    • 7.1. Prologue
    • 7.2. Security Assumptions
    • 7.3. Security Concepts
    • 7.4. Attack Scenarios
    • 7.5. Syncany Server Communication
    • 7.6. Source Code
    • 7.7. Known Issues and Limitations
  • 8. Configuration
    • 8.1. Folder-specific Configuration
    • 8.2. User-specific Configuration
    • 8.3. Keys and Certificates
  • 9. FAQ
    • 9.1. General questions
    • 9.2. Technial and security questions
    • 9.3. Common errors
  • 10. Appendix A: Manual Pages
    • 10.1. sy / syncany
    • 10.2. sy cleanup
    • 10.3. sy connect
    • 10.4. sy daemon
    • 10.5. sy down
    • 10.6. sy genlink
    • 10.7. sy init
    • 10.8. sy log
    • 10.9. sy ls-remote
    • 10.10. sy ls
    • 10.11. sy plugin
    • 10.12. sy restore
    • 10.13. sy status
    • 10.14. sy up
    • 10.15. sy update
    • 10.16. sy watch
  • 11. Appendix B: Videos & Links
    • 11.1. Videos
    • 11.2. Links
 
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