yajsync

yajsync is a port of rsync written in Java.

yajsync currently supports a minimal subset of rsync protocol version 30.0.

Currently implemented rsync options:

Incremental recursion (-r, --recursive)
Preserve owner (-o, --owner)
Preserve group (-g, --group)
Don't map uid/gid values by user/group name (--numeric-ids)
Preserve permissions (-p, --perms)
Preserve times (-t, --times)
Preserve symbolic links (-l, --links)
Transfer directories (-d, --dirs)
Delete extraneous files (--delete)
Don't skip files that match size and time (-I, --ignore-times)
Read daemon-access password from FILE (--password-file=FILE) or environment variable RSYNC_PASSWORD
Module file listings
Archive mode (-a, --archive)
Set I/O read timeout in seconds (--timeout=SECONDS)
Set daemon connection timeout in seconds (--contimeout=SECONDS)

Simulated options:

Preserve character device files and block device files (--devices)
Preserve named sockets and named pipes (--specials)

These will currently return an error when trying to actually read device metadata of a device file or trying to create a device file. The reason for this is the inability to handle device files in Java. We still want to support these options in order to be able to support --archive.

yajsync is compliant with at least rsync version 3.0.9.

Features

rsync Java API
Platform independent rsync server
Platform independent rsync client with support for both local and remote file transfers
Native SSL/TLS tunneling

Please be aware though that the API currently is unstable, not documented and will most probably change in the near future.

Warning

This software is still unstable and there might be data corruption bugs hiding. So use it only carefully at your own risk.

Contact

If you encounter any problems or if you have any questions or just want to provide feedback of any type, then please create a new github issue for this.

Example

Start a Server listening on localhost port 14415, with one implicitly read-only module called Downloads and one readable and writable module called Uploads:

$ cat yajsyncd.conf

# This line and all text after a `#' is a comment. Text within square
# brackets define the name of a new module. A module definition may be
# followed by any number of predefined parameter value statements on
# the form key = value. The current available module parameters are:
#
#    path          An existing path to the module (mandatory).
#    comment       Text that will be shown to the client in module listings
#                  (optional).
#    is_readable   A boolean (true or false) indicating whether files
#                  may be read below this module (optional, default is
#                  true).
#    is_writable   A boolean (true or false) indicating whether files
#                  may be written below this module (optional, default
#                  is false).
#    fs            A Java file system provider (optional).

# This is a module definition for a module called Downloads. path is
# the only mandatory module parameter. This one also provides a
# comment. All modules are implicitly readable but not writable:
[Downloads]
path = /path/to/Downloads/
comment = this text will be printed on module listings, it is optional
# is_readable = true
# is_writable = false

# Uploads is both readable and writable; it does not provide a
# comment:
[Uploads]
path = /path/to/Uploads/
is_writable = true

# Any non-default Java file system provider may be specified using the
# parameter `fs'. Here is an example using the built in Zip file
# system provider which provides transparent access to the contents of
# a zip-file (see also the client option `--fs'):
[zipfs]
fs = jar:file:/path/to/file.zip
path = /

Start the server:

$ java -Dumask=$(umask) -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar server --port=14415 --config=yajsyncd.conf

Recursively upload the directory called example to Uploads:

java -Dumask=$(umask) -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar client --port=14415 -r example localhost::Uploads

The same thing using the alternative syntax:

java -Dumask=$(umask) -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar client -r example rsync://localhost:14415/Uploads

And finally the same thing using the original rsync client:

rsync --port=14415 -r example localhost::Uploads

Note

Recursive transfers always implies incremental recursion.
Use --charset for setting common character set (defaults to UTF-8). Note that --iconv is not supported.
Client local file transfers always uses rsync:s delta transfer algorithm, i.e. it does not have an option --whole-file.
Checksum block size is not computed in the exact same way as rsync. It is computed dynamically based on the file size and is always an even multiple of 2 and at least 512 bytes long.
Wild cards are not supported.

Extra features

(Receiver) --defer-write - defer writing into a temporary file until the content of the target file needs to be updated.
Support for custom Java file system providers with client option --fs and server module parameter fs.

Build instructions

Requirements:

Procedure:

git clone https://github.com/perlundq/yajsync.git
cd yajsync
mvn

Usage

Show client/server help (-h argument):

(Windows):

java -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar client -h
java -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar server -h

(Unix/Linux, we must inject necessary umask information as a property, assuming Bourne shell compatible syntax)

java -Dumask=$(umask) -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar client -h
java -Dumask=$(umask) -jar yajsync-app/target/yajsync-app-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar server -h

Recommended extra options to the jvm (i.e. must be placed before the -jar argument):

Turn on assertions:

-ea

Use a more memory conservative garbage collector:

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

Turn on aggressive optimisations:

-XX:+AggressiveOpts

SSL/TLS is configured externally (see JSSE documentation), but the following properties are used (options to the JVM):

-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=...
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreAlias=...
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=...
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=...
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=...

javax.net.debug is useful for debugging SSL/TLS. To see available values to javax.net.debug:

-Djavax.net.debug=help

Note: client side authorisation is not yet implemented - requires changes to server configuration.

License

yajsync is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3 or later. See the file LICENSE or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for the license details.