How does Storage work?

[William Chorski]

This may be a misunderstanding, but I assume the storage functionality houses and syncs all vault files on a server?

Could you provide a Docker file structure example? This quote from the read me is what I'm trying to understand

storage folder have to start with "data/" to be in the volume

Livesync between Obisidian Clients

I've gotten the live sync working between clients (both connected to the same self hosted CouchDB). Works very well to sync both from phone and PC when editing notes.

When I spin up this livesync-bridge, I'm not sure how or what works.

Config

I'm running this as a container on my Server

With this config I assume the server will get a copy and sync the same vault files as my PC and Phone.

{
    "peers": [
        {
            "type": "couchdb",
            "name": "obsidianDB",
            "database": "obsidianDB",
            "username": "admin",
            "password": "***",
            "url": "https://DOMAIN",
            "customChunkSize": 100,
            "minimumChunkSize": 20,
            "passphrase": "",
            "obfuscatePassphrase": "",
            "baseDir": ""
        },
        {
          "type": "storage",
          "name": "obsidian-storage",
          "baseDir": "./vault/",
          "scanOfflineChanges": true
        }
    ]
}

logs

LiveSync Bridge is now starting...
LiveSync Bridge is now started!
2/10/2024, 8:11:50 PM	1	Cache initialized 300 / 10000000000000
2/10/2024, 8:11:50 PM	1	Cache initialized 300 / 50000000
2/10/2024, 8:11:50 PM	1	Cache initialized 300 / 10000000000000
2/10/2024, 8:11:50 PM	-1	Requesting ... get https://DOMAIN/obsidianDB/_local%2Fobsydian_livesync_milestone
2/10/2024, 8:11:50 PM	10	[obsidian-storage] Scan offline changes: Enabled, now starting...
2/10/2024, 8:11:51 PM	10	[pywriter] Watch starting from 2161-g1AAAACReJzLYWBgYMpgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCScyJNX___8_K4M5iYGBRT8XKMZuYGpkbGRsia4ehwl5LECSoQFI_UcY5AQ2KDnZ1MTIJBVdWxYAx2Iqlw
2/10/2024, 8:11:51 PM	10	WATCH: START: (since:2161-g1AAAACReJzLYWBgYMpgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCScyJNX___8_K4M5iYGBRT8XKMZuYGpkbGRsia4ehwl5LECSoQFI_UcY5AQ2KDnZ1MTIJBVdWxYAx2Iqlw)
2/10/2024, 8:11:51 PM	-1	Requesting ... get https://DOMAIN/obsidianDB/_changes?style=all_docs&filter=replicate%2Fpull&include_docs=true&since=2161-g1AAAACReJzLYWBgYMpgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCScyJNX___8_K4M5iYGBRT8XKMZuYGpkbGRsia4ehwl5LECSoQFI_UcY5AQ2KDnZ1MTIJBVdWxYAx2Iqlw&feed=continuous&timeout=100000&heartbeat=5000
2/10/2024, 8:11:51 PM	10	[obsidian-storage] Scan offline changes: Finished

My Server repo

Here is my folder structure. The vault folder is a clone of my obsidian vault root that's on my PC and Phone

Whenever I make a change on PC or Phone Obsidian, this change does not reflect to the Server side vault. Is this a wrong assumption of what livesync-bridge can do?

I even manually copied over files from the obsidian into the Server's vault folder to see if that would help. Also, I remember on the older version of livesync I could run docker compose restart and that would kick the sync back into gear and get the server files up to date.

[William Chorski]

So the README is correct, but I got tripped up at the examples since I'm using the Docker version.

Docker

config.json

{
       "type": "storage",
      "name": "obsidian-storage",
      "baseDir": "./data/vault/",
      "scanOfflineChanges": true
}

then create a directory ./data/vault. As soon as I spun up the container the vault automatically pulled down the vault files

recursive git clone

also note for Docker users you want to clone the repo like git clone --recursive https://github.com/vrtmrz/livesync-bridge as the container also relies on the lib submodule

Thanks for this very useful library