Scion

Scion is a file transfer tool based on electron user interface backed by rsync runtime. You can install the binary version from releases section.

Getting started

Scion can be used in Windows, Linux and MacOSX. To get started, check out how to use scion and the installation instructions in the documentation for development.

Requirements

MacOSX from 10.11.x, Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian).

In case of Linux and MacOSX, the higher version than 3.0.0 rsync should be installed.

Intallation

To install the software, please, visit our facility project repository, https://github.com/mpicbg-scicomp/scion.

There is the releases section in the github repository. Each version contains multiple assets because Scion supports Windows (>= Windows 7), Linux (>= Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 24, Debian 8) and MacOSX (>= 10.11).

• Windows: Download scion-Setup-x.x.x.exe
• Linux: Download scion-x.x.x.AppImage
• Mac: Download scion-x.x.x.dmg

Usage examples

Scion can be used for any kinds of data transfer projects.

You can find a list of real-world examples in the documentation.

Help and Support

We are always happy to help out with your use-cases or any other questions you might have. You can ask a question via email, scicomp@mpi-cbg.de or signal an issue on GitHub.

Features

• File transfer over rsync
• Fail-safe transfer
• Multi-user support
• Realtime monitoring source folder
• Synchronization folder if the content is changed

Contributions

We are looking forward to contributions. If you want to contribute this project, please read our Dev documentation first.

Licensing

Scion is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License. See LICENSE for the full license text.