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persy - syncronization based on Git

persy is an automated incremental backup tool for your personal files and folders. It also has the ability to synchronize your folders over multiple machines. So, it is comparable to dropbox_ and ubuntuone_ but with one major difference: you dont need a user account in a cloud in the internet where you dont really know where your stuff is and who may have access to it.

With persy, you control every step and station in the process but persy tries to keep most of the annoying things out of the way. If you just want to backup your files and save nearly every step you do, run persy and add your folders to persy in the "backup" settings tab. If you want to sychronize your files, all you need is a server with ssh and git (in your local network or remote in the internet doesnt matter). I have a old pc here in my local network for example. Give persy the server data it needs, follow the configuration, enable remote synchronization and there you go!

If you are not looking at the online version of the documentation, you can find the most recent version at: http://persy.digitalkultur.net

You can report BUGS, ask QUESTIONS and DOWNLOAD persy on launchpad

You can view the SOURCE and DEVELOPMENT on github

Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Dennis Schwertel s@digitalkultur.net

persy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

persy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with persy; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA