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https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon

Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon

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Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.

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# Profile-sync-daemon

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.



## Good Advice

Always backup your browser profile(s) before using psd for the first time.



## Users of eCryptFS

User of eCryptFS are encouraged not to use psd unless willing to help troubleshoot suspected browser corruption. See [#158](https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/issues/158).



## Supported Browsers

* Chromium

* Conkeror

* Epiphany

* Firefox (stable, beta, and aurora)

* Firefox-trunk (this is an Ubuntu-only browser: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/install-firefox-nightly-from-ubuntu-ppa.html)

* Google Chrome (stable, beta, and dev)

* Heftig's version of Aurora (this is an Arch Linux-only browser: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157)

* Icecat (GNU version of Firefox)

* Iceweasel (Debian version of Firefox)

* Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763)

* Luakit

* Midori

* Opera, Opera-Beta, Opera-Developer, and Opera-Legacy

* Otter-browser

* Palemoon

* QupZilla

* Qutebrowser

* Rekonq

* Seamonkey

* Surf (http://surf.suckless.org/)

* Vivaldi-browser and Vivaldi-browser-snapshot



## Documentation

Consult the man page or the wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon



## Installation from Source

To build from source, see the included INSTALL text document.



## Installation from Distro Packages

### Officially Packaged

* Arch: in the extra [repo](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/profile-sync-daemon/).

* Debian: in the official [repos](https://packages.debian.org/unstable/profile-sync-daemon).

* Exherbo: in the official [repos](http://git.exherbo.org/summer/packages/net-www/profile-sync-daemon).

* Fedora: in the official [repos](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/profile-sync-daemon).

* Gentoo: in the official [repos](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-misc/profile-sync-daemon).

* NixOS: in the official [repo](https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=profile-sync).

* Ubuntu: in Universe [repo](https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=profile-sync-daemon).



### User Packaged

* Slackware: on [slackbuilds](http://slackbuilds.org/apps/profile-sync-daemon/).



### Other Distros

If you are interested in packaging psd for your favorite distro, please contact me.



## logcheck

Using logcheck? Here are some ways to filter out log lines:

```regexp

^\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\.$

```