I made some incremental improvements to my trusty synchronization tool. I have added ssh master connection sharing support, which should give a nice speed up in many cases. In addition to this, there are cleanups in auto completion code and more flexible command line parsing. There is a release on Github.
I do certain things the old fashioned way – synchronizing application config and data across different hosts is one of those areas. I don’t use Dropbox or other internet services for file sync purposes, except for the builtin Google stuff on my Android phone (which is mostly app config backup). I like to keep it peer-to-peer, simple and manual. And I like to keep my data private. Ds is just the right tool to make syncing that much easier, which I guess is the reason I wrote it.
Cloud services is not something I need to manage my data. I have my own “cloud services”: A synchronization scheme which works well enough, automated backups with regular encrypted offsite storage (a future blog post), personal web and file services and high speed fibre optic internet connection – all at home. I will admit to a certain level of NIH syndrome here, but my own solutions work well enough that I will not bother looking into something else yet.