Rob Cherry wrote:
> Has anyone ever used unison? (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/)
> 
> I have a large file server migration coming up (large being relative -
> its only .5Tb - but large for us).  We are migrating to a new domain
> infrastructure.  As such all the SIDs and ownership of files is going
> to be messed up regardless.  I would like to start copying today with
> a final cutover in about a weeks time.  Would this list favour xcopy
> with the appropriate diff flags and a scheduled task, or should I give
> unison a shot for continuous update sync?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob Cherry


The issue we had with Unison at $work was that the amount of data that 
changed regularly was so much that Unison couldn't keep up.  When it 
went to do a scan to see what was changed, the previous sync hadn't even 
finished.  This was between the US and UK, though.

        - Ryan
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