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Synchronize directories using FTP(S), SFTP, or file system access.
https://pyftpsync.readthedocs.io
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[FEATURE] Storing metadata separate from the synced folder-pairs #34

Closed gnanet closed 4 years ago

gnanet commented 6 years ago

I currently use pyftpsync to incremetally download a mailbox folder structure directly into a local mailbox folder, and if this metadata can speed up incremental functionality, i would not want them to be removed.

I would welcome some option to tell pyftpsync where to replicate the folderstructure and place these metadata in the "shadow-folderstructure"

if i could specify a meta-folder, where pyftpsync can store/look-for the meta files, and additionally the files could include their folder-path info, so there would be no need to create loads of folders.

Also for "virtually read-only" remotes you could store sync-metadata locally, which would eliminate the need for writable remote while doing download-functionality

This meta-data-folder solution is applied for example in offlineimap as a config value called metadatadir

gnanet commented 6 years ago

by the way, i could push my will, and could install pyftpsync on debian wheezy (7.11) with python2.7, and with a lot of manual pip-2.7 usage, and some installed scripts had to modified to /usr/bin/python2.7 because the default pyhon still points to 2.6:

Some pre dependent things:

python-pip python2.7 python2.7-dev libffi-dev libffi5 python-dbus

Then either one has to search for http: in the pip sources and ensure the defaults are all changed tzo https:

or one can add this option to all pip-2.7 calls: -i https://pypi.python.org/simple

easy_setup + setuptools is best installed as root like this:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python2.7

Then i had lot of loops with pip-2.7 install pyftpsync before i collected these install commands:

pip-2.7 install keyring
pip-2.7 install "SecretStorage < 3"
pip-2.7 install "configparser >= 3.5"
pip-2.7 install "ipaddress"
pip-2.7 install enum34
pip-2.7 install pyftpsync
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