2026-04-24 Sync Setup

• I would like to have website autobuild when new pages are added.
• What about drafts?
  • Drafts would still be synced
  • Server would see changes
  • Server would rebuild needlessly as I wrote my articles
  • Could write all drafts in an “exlcuded” folder
    • Don’t like this though
  • Maybe set sync to like 15 minutes?
    • A nice balance between syncing and constant building.
    • 15 minutes isn’t a long time to wait for new articles.
• I have obsidian sync working locally
  • It’s easy to set up,
  • key thing is to set —mode to mirror-remote.
    • This will ensure changes are one way only
• Plan
  • setup obsidian sync on server
  • setup quartz on server
  • write a script that will
    • Run obsidian sync
    • if changes detected
      • Build with quartz
      • Push files to http folder
• Dangers to watch out for
  • Sync message changing, ruining change detection
  • sync client going out of date
• Running through Setup now
  • Installed ob sync on server
  • Ran test sync
  • I think the best way of testing for changes I know (without using AI) is to count the lines
    • VAR=$(ob sync --path /home/shroomy/vaults/shroo.my/ | wc -l)
    • When this is greater than 13 then do build
  • Installed my version of quartz from my repo
  • Ran a test build
  • Deleted existing wesite
  • Copied from public to serverer folder
  • It works!
    • Although I’ve forgotten to sync my customizations from my home laptop to my repo Bash script:

#!/bin/bash
LINECOUNT=$(ob sync --path /home/shroomy/vaults/shroo.my/ | wc -l)`
cd /home/shroomy/code/shroo.my
npx quartz sync
if [ "$LINECOUNT" -gt 13 ];then
	npx quartz build
	rm -rf /var/www/shroo.my/html/*
	cp -r /home/shroomy/code/shroo.my/public/* /var/www/shroo.my/html/
fi

Major EDIT!

After poking around I found a Database file! It lives in /home/{user}/.config/obsidian-headless/{vault_id}/state.db. In the META table is a version number that increases with every sync. So… my new script doesn’t rely on the line count anymore! Also, I added some comments…

#!/bin/bash
echo "===[$(date)] Starting Obsidian sync==="
DB_PATH="/home/shroomy/.config/obsidian-headless/sync/f48cba89fc7b0d97233d008f7992bee5/state.db"
before=$(sqlite3 "$DB_PATH" 'SELECT value FROM meta WHERE key="version";')
ob sync --path /home/shroomy/vaults/shroo.my/
after=$(sqlite3 "$DB_PATH" 'SELECT value FROM meta WHERE key="version";')
if [ "$before" != "$after" ];then
        echo "===Changes Found, Starting Build==="
        echo "===Starting Quartz sync==="
        cd /home/shroomy/code/shroo.my
        npx quartz sync
        echo "===Starting Quartz Build==="
        npx quartz build
        echo "===Deleting Old Files==="
        rm -rf /var/www/shroo.my/html/*
        echo "===Copying accross new files==="
        cp -r /home/shroomy/code/shroo.my/public/* /var/www/shroo.my/html/
else
        echo "=== No Changes Detected! ==="
fi
echo "===Sync Complete!==="
echo "