Feature Request: Master/slave directories

[nonik]

First of all, great progress so far on SyncApp--I am looking forward to the future progress of it! My question/feature request is essentially enabling a set of synced folders to use the master/slave paradigm. That is, given one master directory and any number of slave directories, they satisfy the following criteria:

- the master directory is never written to, only read from (by the SyncApp)

- all changes (by a user) to the master directory are synced to all slave directories

- changes to any of the slave directories are reverted, and updated to be in sync with the master directory

Essentially, I want a directory replicator without worrying about accidental/incidental changes in the slave folders from being synced back to the authoritative master directory--which I never want to be written to by SyncApp. I've never seen this feature in any other file syncing apps (are there?), and would be highly desirable for a variety of purposes. I've thought about workaround solutions to this problem involving file permissions/ACLs, but that seems like it would cause issues with SyncApp amongst other things, and it would be nice for a feature like this to be baked into the product.

Thoughts?

[GreatMarko]

Noik, according to BitTorrent they do "plan to add one way synchronization" which I think is essentially what you're after?

See Kos13's second post in this thread: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8654-syncapp-progress/

[nonik]

Oh, missed that when I skimmed the forum. That sure seems like what I was looking for, thanks!

Now to play the waiting game...