Features

Entertainment Library Synchronizer (ELS) has a variety of basic and advanced features that may be used in a variety of ways.

Basics

• ELS is both a desktop application, the Navigator, and can be used as a command line tool.

• Views a collection as a set of logical libraries and titles that may span multiple storage devices.

• Navigator may be used on:
  • A workstation for collecting & creating new content.
  • A data/media server, e.g. Plex server.
  • A back-up for either a workstation or server.
  • Together these modes support a variety of scenarios.

  

• ELS Navigator displays two collections, a publisher and a subscriber.
  • A publisher is a workstation or a data/media server.
  • A subscriber is a data/media server or a back-up.
  • Each has two tabs, one for the logical collection and another for the system the collection is on.
  • Directories and files may copied, moved, deleted, renamed, etc.
  • Local files may be opened, viewed, played, etc.
  • ELS command line may be used to execute back-ups and may be automated with a scheduler.
• Built-in updater.

Advanced

• Operations

    ELS uses a publisher/subscriber paradigm and can operate in a variety of ways.

• Most Common
  • Local Publish
  • Remote Publish
  • Subscriber Listener
• Advanced
  • Hint Status Server
  • Publisher Terminal
  • Publisher Listener
  • Subscriber Terminal
  • Hint Server force quit
  • Subscriber Listener force quit

• Tools

    Built-in Tools. External tools will be supported in 4.1.

• Duplicate Finder
• Empty Directory Finder
• Junk Remover
• Operations
• Renamer
• Sleep tool

    All the Operations are in one program.

• Jobs

    Any number Jobs may be defined for manual or automated execution.

• User-definable Jobs are a sequence of Tools put into Tasks.

• Security

• Blacklist and whitelist to avoid hack attempts against listener Operations.
• All remote communication is encrypted from the initial “handshake”.

• Hints

    Hints are used to coordinate manual changes in collections.

• Hints are processed during back-up operations.
• Any number of back-ups are supported.

• Works locally or remotely: