Dsync: a tool to sync source directories/files to a target directory
Hello HN. I worked on this small project recently called dsync. I have a few directories where I keep adding stuff and I need to sync them to an external drive from time to time. In the spirit of "write your own tools", I wrote my own. The tool itself is really simple. It tries to sync source directories or files to a destination directory based on size and modification time, basically copying the source files if they don't match. dsync can use multiple threads (specified via an option). It uses a bounded multi-producer multi-consumer queue (C implementation of Dmitry Vyukov's bounded MPMC…
Dsync: a tool to sync source directories/files to a target directory launched on January 14, 2024 with 7 votes, #1,799 of 4,438 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
A tool to sync source directories and files to a destination directory - dorjoycb/dsync
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN. I worked on this small project recently called dsync. I have a few directories where I keep adding stuff and I need to sync them to an external drive from time to time. In the spirit of "write your own tools", I wrote my own. The tool itself is really simple. It tries to sync source directories or files to…
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