CLI Syncing Scripts

[Tony]

Hi @arvin,
You can use some basic scripting to perform a recursive sync: How can I force a recursive sync (download) with the CLI?

I also have a fork of the CLI that implements a recursive sync function: GitHub - amagliul/odrive-utilities: Utilities for odrive

A couple of Linux-based scripts from @sterlingbutters

CLI Syncing Scripts

There is probably something like this already existing but thought I’d share my solution for easily syncing oDrive files and directories: “Top Level” Sync: https://gist.github.com/SterlingButters/c9a12b6617977ca1334d3ec060297839 Recursive “deep” sync: https://gist.github.com/SterlingButters/11c132d757304d4a1262c3453d0d8583

Additional resources:

Odrive Sync Agent: A CLI/scriptable interface for odrive's Progressive Sync Engine for Linux, OS X, and Windows

Linux/MacOS bash-based: This uses find to recurse and sync. The output is not ideal, though, since it is all queued up. You would need to change the path from ~/odrive-agent-mount/Dropbox/ to whatever you require, of course: output="go"; while [ "$output" ]; do output=$(find "$HOME/odrive-agent-mount/Dropbox/" -name "*.cloud*" -exec python "$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odrive.py" sync "{}" \;); echo $output; done This second one uses an extra file descriptor trick to push the output out in realt…

Odrive Sync Agent: A CLI/scriptable interface for odrive's Progressive Sync Engine for Linux, OS X, and Windows

For your backup and unsync use case, you can script something like this in bash: #!/bin/bash agentdir="$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin" export agentdir agentmount="$HOME/odrive/Dropbox (Personal)" targetdir="$agentmount/temp" sourcedir="$HOME/Downloads/test_directory" python "$agentdir/odrive.py" sync "$targetdir.cloudf" cp -R "$sourcedir" "$targetdir/" python "$agentdir/odrive.py" refresh "$targetdir" echo Waiting for odrive to start syncing $targetdir ... while [ "$(python "$agentdir/odrive.py" syncs…