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 Disclaimer: Some of the videos and articles might be outdated.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.
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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- Syncany Web Interface Preview (now outdated!)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.