msynctool(1) Command line interface for OpenSync

SYNTAX

msynctool option [arguments] [option]
msynctool --sync SYNC_GROUP

DESCRIPTION

Command line interface for OpenSync
You can use this tool to synchronize your devices and applications using the OpenSync framework from the command line.

- First you have to create a SYNC_GROUP:
msynctool --addgroup evo2-sync
- Now you have to add the members to this group. (2 at least)

Note: The first argument to the --addmember command is the group to which you want to add a member, the second argument is the name of the plugin to add.

msynctool --addmember evo2-sync evo2-sync
msynctool --addmember evo2-sync file-sync
- The next thing you have to do is to configure the plugins.
msynctool --configure evo2-sync 1
(configures the first group member)
msynctool --configure evo2-sync 2
(configures the second group member)
- Now your group is ready for usage!
msynctool --sync evo2-sync

OPTIONS

--listgroups
Lists all groups
--listplugins
Lists all plugins
--listobjects
Lists all objtypes that the engine understands
objtypes: contact, data, event, note, todo
--showformats objtype
Lists all formats that a objtype can have
--showgroup groupname
Lists all members of the group
--sync groupname
Sync all members in a group
--filter-objtype objtype
Filter out objtype
For example, the following syncs only contacts:
msynctool --sync evo2-sync --filter-objtype event --filter-objtype note --filter-objtype todo

Note: if you use "--filter-objtype data" it syncs nothing !?

--slow-sync objtype
Perform a slow-sync of all members in the group
[--wait]
Don't immediately start to sync, but wait for a client to initialize the sync
[--multi]
Repeat to wait for sync alerts
--addgroup groupname
Add a new group
--delgroup groupname
Delete the given group
--addmember groupname plugintype
Add a member to the group
--configure groupname memberid
Configure a member. memberid as returned by --showgroup
[--manual]
Make manual engine iterations. Only for debugging
[--configdir]
Set a different configdir than ~/.opensync
[--conflict 1-9/d/i/n]
Resolve all conflicts as side 1-9 wins, duplicate, ignore, or keep newer

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

OSYNC_TRACE
When you want to provide trace files please turn on tracing like this:
export OSYNC_TRACE=/path/to/log/dir
When you run some opensync commands now, opensync will generate a couple of Thread*.log files in this directory.
You can exclude sensitive data in the trace files with:
export OSYNC_PRIVACY=1

AUTHORS

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux project by Matthias Jahn <[email protected]>. But it may be used by other distributions.

msynctool was written by Armin Bauer and the OpenSync project