#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.
##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)
- Luakit
- Midori
- Opera, Opera-Beta and Opera-Developer
- Otter-browser
- Palemoon
- QupZilla
- Rekonq
- Seamonkey
##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
Arch: in the AUR.
Chakra: in the CCR.
Debian: in graysky's PPA.
Exherbo: in the Exherbo repos.
Fedora: in the official repos.
Gentoo: in the Gentoo repos.
Mint: in graysky's PPA.
NixOS: Available through the psd service.
OpenSUSE: packaged by Overman79.
Ubuntu: in graysky's PPA.
Void: in the Void repos.
###Debian Users Tested on Debian 7.7 (wheezy) and 8.0 (jessie). To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Debian system; do the following as the root user:
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu trusty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F0E0B4E7
apt-get update
apt-get install profile-sync-daemon
###Fedora Users Since June of 2013, Profile-sync-daemon is in the official repo. Reference.
sudo yum install profile-sync-daemon
###Mint Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Mint system (tested on 14.1), and to install psd:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon
###NixOS Users
Currently, you need to be tracking nixos-unstable:
nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos
nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
The NixOS module looks for a services.psd attribute set in your
configuration.nix (run nixos-help for all options):
services.psd = {
enable = true;
users = [ "user42" "other_user" ]; # At least one is required
browsers = [ "firefox" "chromium" ]; # Leave blank to enable all
useOverlayFS = true; # set to true to enable overlayfs or set to false to use the default sync mode
};
Then rebuild your system configuration with nixos-rebuild switch.
###Ubuntu Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu system (packages available for Lucid and newer), and to install psd:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon
###Other Distros If you are interested in packaging psd for your favorite distro, please contact me.