#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, Opera-Developer, and Opera-Legacy
* Otter-browser
* Palemoon
* QupZilla
* Rekonq
* Seamonkey
* Vivaldi-browser and Vivaldi-browser-snapshot

##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
### Officially Packaged
* ![logo](http://distrowatch.com/images/icon-small/agilia.png "agilia logo")Agilialinux: in the official [repos](http://packages.agilialinux.ru/show.php?id=31189).
* ![logo](http://cloud.ohloh.net/attachments/14589/me_small.png "exherbo logo")Exherbo: in the official [repos](http://git.exherbo.org/summer/packages/net-www/profile-sync-daemon).
* ![logo](http://s9.postimg.org/p5f1tscxn/fedora.jpg "fedora logo")Fedora: in the official [repos](http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=16307).
* ![logo](http://www.monitorix.org/imgs/gentoo.png "gentoo logo")Gentoo: in the official [repos](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-misc/profile-sync-daemon).
* ![logo](http://s29.postimg.org/ofjg812er/nixos_logo_small.png "nixos logo")NixOS: in the official  [repos](https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon#nixos-users).
* ![logo](http://s23.postimg.org/5pabe2o5z/void_logo_transparent.png "void logo")Void: in the official [repos](https://github.com/xtraeme/xbps-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/profile-sync-daemon).

### User Packaged
* ![logo](http://www.monitorix.org/imgs/archlinux.png "arch logo")Arch: in the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/profile-sync-daemon).
* ![logo](http://s18.postimg.org/w5jvz71mt/chakra.jpg "chakra logo")Chakra: in the [CCR](http://chakraos.org/ccr/packages.php?ID=5008).
* ![logo](http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/lean/debian_logo.png "debian logo")Debian: in [graysky's PPA](https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon#debian-users).
* ![logo](http://s30.postimg.org/auetslwfh/opensuse.jpg "open suse")OpenSUSE: packaged by [Overman79](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ZaWertun:utility/profile-sync-daemon).
* ![logo](http://wiki.codeblocks.org/images/8/8b/Slackware-logo_32.png "slack logo")Slackware: on [slackbuilds](http://slackbuilds.org/apps/profile-sync-daemon/).
* ![logo](http://www.monitorix.org/imgs/ubuntu.png "ubuntu logo")Ubuntu: in [graysky's PPA](https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon#ubuntu-users).

###Debian Users
You must be using AT LEAST Debian 8.0 (Jessie) or have systemd as your init system to use these packages!
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 vivid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
    echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu vivid 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](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968253).

    sudo yum 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
You must be using AT LEAST Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid) or have systemd as your init system to use these packages!
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.
