11. Appendix B: Videos & Links

There is quite a bit of reading material on Syncany already. Check out the following links and videos. Disclaimer: Some of the videos and articles might be outdated. Syncany moves really quickly.

Contents

• Appendix B: Videos & Links
  • Videos
  • Links

11.1. Videos

The following lists some random videos we made to demonstrate Syncany. We are developers, not directors or video editors – so apologies for the quality and the lack of spoken word. The two main video site profiles are the YouTube channel and the asciinema profile.

• Bash completion (Mar ‘15, part of this blog post)
• Recent changes & history browser (Jan ‘15, 36 sec)
• History browser keeps the state; browse previous versions (Jan ‘15, 36 sec)
• History browser sneak peek (Jan ‘15, 34 sec)
• SFTP syncing, toggle notifications, install plugins, recent changes (Jan ‘15, 3 min)
• Init, connect and sync via graphical user interface (Dec ‘14, 3 min)
• Flickr-based storage plugin in action (Dec ‘14, 2 min)
• Connect to WebDAV with password via GUI (Dec ‘14, 1 min)
• GUI Demo: Adding existing/new folders with the Wizard (Dec ‘14, 2 min)
• Windows/Linux with GUI / tray icons and conflicts (Oct ‘14, 3 min)
• Progress bar in command line (Sep ‘14, 1 min)
• Syncany Web Interface Preview (now outdated!) (Jun ‘14, 2 min)
• Trying out the newest Syncany version with Docker (May ‘14, 1 min)
• Automatically sync folders (using the S3 plugin) (May ‘14, 3 min)
• Installing and using plugins (in this video: SFTP) (May ‘14, 1 min)
• Installing and using plugins (in this video: WebDAV) (May ‘14, 1 min)
• Automatically sync folders (using the FTP plugin) (Apr ‘14, 1 min)
• Connect to an existing repository and sync a few files (using the FTP plugin) (Apr ‘14, 1 min)
• Create a new repository and link the local folder (using the FTP plugin) (Apr ‘14, 1 min)
• Setup Amazon S3 for two users, and sync two clients with Syncany (Oct ‘13, 9 min)
• Conflict handling on Linux, using local plugin (Oct ‘13, 2 min)
• Checkout code, compile and run two clients on Linux, using FTP plugin (Oct ‘13, 14 min)

11.2. Links

There is quite a bit of reading material on Syncany already. Check out the following links:

Posts and papers:

• Syncany: The road to beta – Delft Students On Software Architecture (May 2015)
• Blog post: Syncany explained: idea, progress, development and future (part 1) (Oct 2013)
• Blog post: Deep into the code of Syncany – CLI, application flow and data model (part 2) (Feb 2014)
• Master’s thesis: Minimizing remote storage usage and synchronization time using deduplication and multichunking: Syncany as an example (2011)

Diagrams:

• Diagram: Syncany application flow example
• Diagram: Chunking framework class diagram
• Diagram: Storage plugins class diagram
• Diagram: Database class diagram
• Diagram: Cryptography concept

Generated JavaDoc and JUnit Reports:

The up-to-date JavaDoc of the master branch is always compiled to docs.syncany.org/javadoc. It includes the JavaDoc of all Gradle modules in the repo. All results of the JUnit tests and Cobertura coverage reports are compiled to reports.syncany.org.