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The file $HOME/.dav/sync.xml is used for configuring sync-directories.

The sync.xml file is an XML file with <configuration> as root element. This element can only have <directory> elements as children.

directory

This element configures a sync-directory. A sync-directory must have a unique name, a (local) path, repository and a database.

Required elements: <name>, <repository>, <path>, <database>
+Optional elements: <collection>, <trash>, <max-retry>, <backup-on-pull>, <lock-pull>, <lock-push>, <filter>

name

Unique sync-directory identifer. This identifer is used in combination with all dav-sync commands.

Type: string
+Example: <name>mysyncdir</name>

repository

Name of the WebDAV-repository. A repository with the same name must be configured in [config.xml][1].

Type: string
+Example: <name>myrepo</name>

path

The path of the local directory that should be synchronized. The path must be an absolute path or start with an environment variable. A path with an environment variable must start with an $ followed by the variable name optionally followed by a path. For example:

`<path>$HOME/Documents</path>`

The part between $ and / is the environment variable name.

Type: string
+Example: <path>/absolute/path</path>

database

Path to the database file used for this sync-directory. The path must be relative to the $HOME/.dav/ directory.

Type: string
+Example: <database>myrepo-db.xml</database>

collection

Path of the collection relative to the repository root collection. For example if the repository url is http://example.com/webdav/ and the collection value is /myfiles/, the directory is synchronized with http://example.com/webdav/myfiles/

Type: string
+Default: /
+Example: <collection>/myfiles</collection>

trash

Path to the trash directory for this sync-directory. Files that should be deleted will be moved to this directory. The value must be an absolute path or relative to the sync-directory path.

Type: string
+Example: <trash>.trash</trash>

max-retry

This integer value controls how many attempts of downloading/uploading a file in case of an error are made.

Type: integer
+Default: 0
+Example: <max-retry>3</max-retry>

backup-on-pull

If this element has the value of true, the pull command will move old local files to the trash directory before downloading the new version from the server.

Type: boolean
+Default: false
+Example: <backup-on-pull>true</backup-on-pull>

lock-pull

Enables locking for the pull command.

Type: boolean
+Default: false
+Example: <lock-pull>true</lock-pull>

lock-push

Enables locking for the push command.

Type: boolean
+Default: false
+Example: <lock-push>true</lock-push>

filter

With the filter element, include and exclude filters can be specified, to control which files are synchronized. The pull and push command apply these filters to file paths. At first it is checked if a file is matching any include filter. If so only files matching not an exclude filter are further processed.

Note: The file path is relative to the directory path (and WebDAV collection) but always starts with an path separator.

Optional elements: <include>, <exclude>

include

Controls which files will be included by pull and push. If an include filter is specified, only files matching this filter are included.

Type: regex string
+Default: .*
+Example:

<filter>
+    <include>\.pdf$</include>
+</filter>

exclude

Controls which files will be excluded by pull and push.

Type: regex string
+Example:

<filter>
+    <exclude>^/secretdir</exclude>
+    <exclude>\.DS_Store$</exclude>
+</filter>

Configuration