• Description
• Features
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Tab completion
• Usage
• Quick setup
• List of options
• Running as a daemon
• Examples
• Contributing
• Show your support
• License

Automate database backups with customizable recurring schedules.

• Backup scheme - Synchly uses a Grandfather-father-son backup rotation scheme (daily, weekly, monthly) that is fully customizable.
  Default schedule: 7 dailies 8 weeklies 6 monthlies (at max there will be 21 backups at a given instant).
• Flexible scheduling - Schedule the daily backups to fit your maintenance and development schedule, so that you get a clear picture of your database backups over time.
• Supported Databases
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
• Compression - Compress the database backups to save up space.
• Cloud Storage Integration - Sync the local backups to remote storage of your choice.
• Restoration - Restore the database from the backups.
• Supported remote storages
  • Google Drive
  • SFTP
  • S3
• Status notifications - Get daily status reports for successful and failed backups, delivered when you want them via SMTP to the specified email(s). Check Usage and the List of Options below.
• Multiple Backup Jobs - Run multiple backup jobs in parallel.
• Encryption - Encrypt the job configuration and backup files.

This guide helps you use Synchly with Docker to synchronize directories.

• Docker installed on your system.

Run the following command to start the Synchly container in the background:

docker run -d \
    -v /:/app/subsystem \
    --name synchly_container \
    umer2001/synchly:latest

This command starts the container and mounts your root directory (/) as /app/subsystem within the container.

Use docker exec to execute configuration commands or any other desired commands within the Synchly container. For instance:

docker exec synchly_container <command>
# example
docker exec synchly_container synchly --config=db --file /workspaces/synchly/configs/postgres.json

Replace <command> with your specific Synchly command.

IMPORTANT: After creating or updating a configuration file, execute the following command to ensure Synchly is running:

docker exec -d synchly_container synchly --start

This command restarts Synchly to apply any new configurations or changes made

• node >=8

The Synchly CLI is distributed as an NPM package. To use it, install it globally using:

npm install --global synchly

or using yarn:

yarn global add synchly

The synchly package includes a useful tab-completion feature. This feature is installed automatically after the installation of the package. However, you might need to restart the console after installing the package for the autocomplete feature to work.

If you use Bash, it will create a file at ~/.synchly/completion.sh and append a loader code to ~/.bash_profile file.

If you use Zsh, it appends a loader code to ~/.zshrc file.

If you use Fish, it appends a loader code to ~/.config/fish/config.fish file.

$ synchly [--config module]
$ synchly [--config module] [--file filepath]
$ synchly [--disablejob] [--job exampleJob]
$ synchly [--disable module] [--debug]
$ synchly [--enablejob] [--job exampleJob]
$ synchly [--enable module] [--stacktrace]
$ synchly [--help]
$ synchly [--job exampleJob] [--config module]
$ synchly [--jobs]
$ synchly [--reset]
$ synchly [--restore]
$ synchly [--run]
$ synchly [--start]
$ synchly [--version]

Synchly can be run with --help flag to get a full list of flags.

The quickest way to get started is to run the synchly --config=db command.

To start synchly use the command synchly --start.
Synchly instance have to be restarted everytime you make a change to the configuration using the cli options.

To restore database from the backup files use the command synchly --restore.

Configuration of modules (remote-sync and smtp) can be added or updated using synchly --config=module command. Initializing configurations can also be done using a file, synchly --config=module --file=filepath, refer Configuration using file.

By default, remote-sync and smtp modules are disabled, to enable them, use synchly --enable=module command.

To encyrpt the job configuration files use the command synchly --enable=cipher and to disable it globally use the command synchly --disable=cipher. Encryption of backup files can be done only when cipher module is enabled.

For the complete list of options and their behavior, refer List of options.

For running synchly as a daemon, refer Running as a deamon.

For creating multiple backup jobs, refer Running multiple jobs

Synchly can be run as a daemon, init.d and systemd unit files are bundled with the npm package to make this easier.

$ npm install --global synchly
$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/node_modules/synchly/bin/synchly.conf /etc/init
$ sudo start synchly

$ npm install --global synchly
$ cp /usr/local/lib/node_modules/synchly/bin/synchly.service  ~/.config/systemd/user/
$ systemctl --user enable synchly
$ systemctl --user start synchly

If the unit files are not there inside /usr/local/lib/node_modules, use npm root -g to get the global installation root path and copy the unit files from there. The WorkingDirectory field in the synchly.service unit file also needs to be changed, if the global installation root path is different from /usr/local/lib/node_modules.

If installed using yarn global, the service init files will be located on

• /usr/local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/synchly/bin/ - if logged in as root
• ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/synchly/bin - if logged in as non-root

NOTE: Don't forget to restart the daemon everytime you make a change to the configuration using the cli options.

• Database configuration
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
• Cloud Storage (remote-sync) configuration
  • Google Drive
  • SFTP
  • S3
• Status notifications (smtp) configuration
  • Using Gmail
• Enabling modules
• Disabling modules
• Stacktrace of errors
• Running multiple jobs

Read our Contribution Guidelines for information on how you can help out Synchly

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Copyright ©️ 2020 Hariprasanth S

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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