smartcopy

Intelligent layer on top of existing cloud storage

Requirements

Unix based OS with fork support and support for watching filesystem changes through inotify, FSEvents or kqueue.
python 2.7 and above

Design

I followed a similar method to .gitignore and hence decided to have a list of all the pattern that need to be ignored from syncing

Example

.*.jar : Ignore all the files containing .jar
.class$ : Ignore all the files ending with .class
^Bingo : Ignore all the files starting with Bingo

For more information on using regular expression please check the python regex documentation.

Components

) smartcopyd : SmartCopy Daemon smartcopydaemon monitors for changes to a directory , filter the files according to the ignore patterns and sync's to the cloud storage.
) smartcopy : SmartCopy Client smartcopy allows you to change the config file and modify any ignore pattern rules.

Python regex

Installation

Method 1 ( For using the latest stable branch)

sudo easy_install smartcopy

Method 2 ( For current development branch)

git clone https://github.com/sarchak/smartcopy.git
cd smartcopy
sudo python setup.py install

Starting the daemon


Shrikars-MacBook-Pro:~ shrikar$ smartcopyd
Shrikars-MacBook-Pro:~ shrikar$ smartcopy
/Users/shrikar/.smartcopy
Starting SmartCopy Engine...
smartcopy> add .*.jpg
Adding this pattern to ignore path :  .*.jpg
smartcopy> add .*.pdf
Adding this pattern to ignore path :  .*.pdf
smartcopy> add .*.jar
Adding this pattern to ignore path :  .*.jar
smartcopy>

The above command will create a directory called SmartCopy in your home folder feel free to drag it to the finder sidebar or where ever its convenient for you to copy files.

Important : While syncing files DO NOT COPY OR MOVE files directly to the dropbox folder instead copy/move to SmartCopy folder which will filter the files and sync's them to the dropbox folder.

More Info

sarchak/smartcopy