On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:40:03PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:03:47 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > >> This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > >> notebook and desktop (at home and at work). Any good recommendation? > >> . . . > > Hi, so far I have not found any nice and useful software that can do > > this (I mean with gui and so on) > > > > The mentioned unison program failed the tests. May be rsync but not sure > > it didn't do the things I wanted and I wanted to do it the way you can > > do it in i.e. windows with some commercial software. > > > > I was also thinking unison is just the right thing, but then I noticed > > it's not really syncing like it should and leading to inconsistency. > > Thanks for your feedback, Emanoil. Could you elaborate more? unison > "looks" promising to me, and I've just learned that there are no ocaml > runtime dependency for it on i386, amd64. So usability is the most > important issue to me now. Anyone has positive experience with unison?
You may wish to read sections around: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_copy_and_synchronization_tools http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#list-of-vcs If you use rsync or unison, I think you must have keep time correct. Unison overwrite files. So please make sure you have proper data backup. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
