s3ync

Automate the synchronization of your local backups or changes with S3 buckets.

Commands

Initialize config file:

s3ync config init

List all profiles with details

s3ync config list

Get the newly added profile (user1) from ~/.aws/config and add it to the s3ync config file.

s3ync config add --profile user1

TODOs

sync

● Add sync data to config file, syncs of the profile
● Add path to the watcher (fsnotify)
● Catch events and sync to bucket
● If recursive delete files if not just skip the event

unsync

● Delete path from watcher
● Delete sync data from config file as well

-l --local: local directory to listen on (exact arg)
-b --bucket: bucket to sync the local directory (exact arg)
-r --recursive: to sync delete events as well (optional)
-p --profile: profile of the bucket (exact arg, null: default(~/.aws/config))

s3ync sync -l /path/to/dir -b bucket-name --profile

s3ync unsync -l /path/to/dir -b bucket-name --profile

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Get list of syncs details of the profiles

s3ync sync list --profile

The config file remains the same but kills the watcher to stop running in the background...

s3ync stop

Maybe: s3ync stop --profile user1

Restart watcher to run in background again...

s3ync restart

Maybe: s3ync restart --profile user1

Destroy everthing, config file, watcher...

s3ync destroy

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YAML

s3:
  profiles:
    default:
      region: eu-central-1
      syncs:
        "1":
          local: /path/to/dir
          bucket:
            region: eu-central-1
            name: bucket-name
    user1:
      region: eu-west-1
      syncs:
blob:
gcp:

Future

Alternative Object Storage Services to sync with

• Azure Blob Storage
• Google Storage