FAQ entry about bidirectional sync - see #118

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Nick Craig-Wood 2015-09-02 08:33:18 +01:00
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@ -95,3 +95,9 @@ All the cloud storage systems support partial downloads of content, so
it would be possible to make partial downloads work. However to make it would be possible to make partial downloads work. However to make
this work efficiently this would require storing a significant amount this work efficiently this would require storing a significant amount
of metadata, which breaks the desired 1:1 mapping of files to objects. of metadata, which breaks the desired 1:1 mapping of files to objects.
### Can rclone do bi-directional sync? ###
No, not at present. rclone only does uni-directional sync from A ->
B. It may do in the future though since it has all the primitives - it
just requires writing the algorithm to do it.