grunt-multisync

syncing multiple folder pairs across drives/locations

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-multisync --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-multisync');

The "multisync" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named multisync to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  multisync: {
    drives: {
        InstallLocation: "~",
        MyHardDrive: "/Users/MyUserName",
        MyBackupDrive: "/Volumes/MyBackupDrive",
        MyOtherDrive: "/Volumes/MyOtherDrive",
        MySpareDrive: "/Volumes/MySpareDrive",
    },
    // Configure a job to back up multiple folder pairs from one drive to another
    job1: {
        drives: {
            src:    '<%= drives.MyHardDrive %>',
            dest:   '<%= drives.MyBackupDrive %>'
        },
        folders: {
            {src: '/TestFolder/', dest: '/test-folder'},
            {src: '/TestFolder2/', dest: '/TestFolder2'},
            {src: '/NamesDontHave/', dest: '/_to_be__the_same_'},
        },
        options: {
            // Global options go here
        }
    }
  },
})

Drives

Drive is a list of drives (or folders) that you want to copy files from or to. In the example config we have two drives configured, a local hard drive 'MyHardDrive' and a backup hard drive MyBackupDrive. In the next section where you configure a sync 'job' you can reference these drives like this.

grunt.initConfig({
  multisync: {
    drives: {
        MyHardDrive: "/Users/MyUserName",
        MyBackupDrive: "/Volumes/MyBackupDrive"
    },
    macbook: {
      drives: {
        src: '<%= drives.MyHardDrive %>',
        dest: '<%= drives.MyBackupDrive %>'
      }
    }
  }
})

Folders

grunt-multisync
    grunt-rsync
        rsyncwrapper

Internally, multisync uses the grunt-rsync plugin which internally uses the node rsyncwrapper library.

Because multi sync passes all params direct through to the grunt-sync plugin, which exposes all of the rsyncwrapper params you are able to configure simple or very complex data syncs.

See the grunt-plugin documentation for more info. See the rsyncwrapper plugin documentation for more info.

Options

Options are globally copied into all of the folder pairs. When an option is already set in an individual folder pair the global option is ignored.

TODO: Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used to do something with whatever. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result would be Testing, 1 2 3.

grunt.initConfig({
  multisync: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      'dest/default_options': ['src/testing', 'src/123'],
    },
  },
})

Custom Options

In this example, custom options are used to do something else with whatever else. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result in this case would be Testing: 1 2 3 !!!

grunt.initConfig({
  multisync: {
    options: {
      separator: ': ',
      punctuation: ' !!!',
    },
    files: {
      'dest/default_options': ['src/testing', 'src/123'],
    },
  },
})

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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