Synchronizr

A node.js utility for getting dropbox-like functionality on my home (Linux) network

So, here's the thing. Between my 3 Ubuntu machines at home, I've got videos, music, pictures, and documents that I want to have on all my computers without a) investing in a NAS, b) paying far too much money for more Dropbox space, and c) having a Google Drive linux client. I had been using unison to do this tri-directional sync across my network, but that's cumbersome and takes too much time. So, I decided to write my own node.js daemon to do it for me.

First of all, you'll want to put a config.json file in the root of this project. I'll fix that later, but here's the gist of it:

For the master box:

{
	"port" : 1337,
	"directories" : {
		"documents" : "/data/Documents"
	}
}

For the slave boxes:

{
	"master" : "mymasterserver.local:1337",
	"directories" : {
		"documents" : "/home/nbroslawsky/Documents"
	}
}

The "directories" block is important: the paths are where the named 'shares' live on the local machine. In this example, the 'documents' share lives in /data/Documents on the master box, but in /home/nbroslawsky/Documents on the slave box. If you have a share name in your slave configuration that does not exist in the master's configuration, it will be skipped. If you have a share name in your master's configuration but not in your slave's, The master will monitor that folder for changes, but will not push them to your slave.

The application will start in either 'master' or 'slave' mode, depending on this configuration.