Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage your browser's profile in tmpfs and to periodically sync it back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This is accomplished via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to maintain back-up and synchronization between the two. One of the major design goals of psd is a completely transparent user experience.
Always backup your browser profile(s) before using psd for the first time.
User of eCryptFS are encouraged not to use psd unless willing to help troubleshoot suspected browser corruption. See #158.
Consult the man page or the wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon
To build from source, see the included INSTALL text document.
If you are interested in packaging psd for your favorite distro, please contact me.
Using logcheck? Here are some ways to filter out log lines:
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ profile-sync-daemon\[[0-9]+]\]: .*(google-chrome|firefox) (re|un)sync successful
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ profile-sync-daemon\[[0-9]+\]: psd startup check successful$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ systemd\[[0-9]+\]: Started Timer for profile-sync-daemon
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ systemd\[[0-9]+\]: psd(-resync)?\.service: Consumed [0-9\.]+s CPU time\.$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ systemd\[[0-9]+\]: psd(-resync)\.timer: Succeeded\.$