On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Joerg Desch <n...@jdesch.de> wrote:
> Hi. > > I'm using Debian Wheezy on two Notebooks and one Desktop. All systems > are using NFS to access a NAS. While the notebooks have all data on > there local SSDs, the Desktop is working directly on the NFS share. > > I currently use Unison to sync the data between the notebooks and the > NAS. This is very time consuming even with enabled "fast checking". > > I choose this solution because I need to take the notebooks with me. > So I must have the data always up to date. > > Is anyone in the same situation? > > Is there a faster and more secure workflow? > I wouldn't have thought so, to any great extent. You can use rsync over ssh if you're worried about the data being intercepted on your network, but I doubt that it will be much quicker as Unison is just a front-end to rsync. Some small amount of time will be saved by not updating the display during copying, as Unison does, some will be lost in ssh encryption. The best gain will be in separating current/recent data from older data, if your work allows it. If it's all big databases, then everything changes all the time, but if it's lots of versions of directories, each containing hundreds of git files, it's frustrating to see Unison wasting time checking stuff that hasn't changed in months. I have an archive set of data, and move stuff out to it if I don't expect to update it and probably not even to read it again. I keep the archive set in all locations, so it's always available everywhere, and if I do ever change anything I move it back into 'live', from where it will propagate to other locations. I do run Unison on the archives, but only occasionally. I don't have a huge amount of live data, a couple of gig, and on my Windows laptop it lives in a single 4GB TrueCrypt file. I dump that to DVD once or twice a week, and it can be mounted on a Linux machine if necessary. The contents are synchronised to my server by a Unison-like Windows program. Because I have a couple of Windows machines, I use samba rather than NFS. I do also have a NAS which synchronises with the server at night. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140921094814.42c46...@jresid.jretrading.com
