[fny]

This is a steaming pile of SFTP. Why not use rsync or wrap it if you must?

For anyone who's interested in proper bidirectional sync check out Mutagen.[0]

[0]: https://mutagen.io/documentation/synchronization/

[marktolson]

Because I don't want to do this: https://mutagen.io/documentation/introduction/getting-starte...

[fny]

This doesn't answer why you're manually handling everything with sftp instead of rsync.