From 7a5229eb3b2347d7cd00901f20d6909afcea1d60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSq2FDpK2n66QRUxtqqdbyDuwgbQmUWus" Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:48:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...ist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn b/doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1df6628ea --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Since _transfer queueing_ and syncing of data works now in the assistant branch (been playing with it), there are times when I really don't want to sync the data, I would like to just sync meta-data and manually do a _get_ on files that I would want or selectively sync data in a subtree. + +It would be nice to have the syncing/watch feature to have the option of syncing only *meta-data* or *meta-data and data*, I think this sort of option was already planned? It would also be nice to be able to automatically sync data for only a subtree. + +My use case is, I have a big stash of files somewhere at home or work, and I want to keep what I am actually using on my laptop and be able to selectively just take a subtree or a set of subtree's of files. I would not always want to suck down all the data but still have the functionally to add files and push them upstream and sync meta-data. + +that is... + +> * Site A: big master annex in a server room with lots of disk (or machines), watches a directory and syncs both data and meta-data, it should always try and pull data from all it's child repos. That way I will always have a master copy of my data somewhere, it would be even nicer if I could have clones of the annex, where each annex is on a different machine which is configured to only sync a subtree of files so I can distribute my annex across different systems and disks. +> * Site A: machine A: syncs Folder A +> * Site A: machine B: syncs Folder B +> * and so on with selectively syncing sites and directories +> * Laptop: has a clone of the annex, and watches a directory, syncs meta-data as usual and only uploads files to a remote (all or a designated one) but it never downloads files automatically or it should only occur inside a selected subtree.