On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Rob Cherry <lo...@lxrb.com> 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
I tried to use Unison at home between 2 systems, and even on a wired LAN it was incredibly slow. It was faster to just copy the whole files. Have you looked at robocopy? That's very close to the "rsync" equivalent for Windows. I use that quite a bit and it works pretty well. It has an option (/MON:n) where it watches the source and will update the destination automatically (though I have not used this myself). Deltacopy is another option, which is billed as "rsync for Windows". As long as you're copying in 1 direction only, these tools should do it for you. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
