#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

• Agilialinux: in the official repos.
• Exherbo: in the official repos.
• Fedora: in the official repos.
• Gentoo: in the official repos.
• NixOS: in the official repos.
• Void: in the official repos.

User Packaged

• Arch: in the AUR.
• Chakra: in the CCR.
• Debian: in graysky's PPA.
• Mint: in graysky's PPA.
• OpenSUSE: packaged by Overman79.
• Slackware: on slackbuilds.
• Ubuntu: in graysky's PPA.

###Debian Users Tested on Debian 7.7 (wheezy) and 8.0 (jessie). 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 trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu trusty 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.

sudo yum install profile-sync-daemon

###Mint Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Mint system (tested on 14.1), and to install psd:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get 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 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.