On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jamie Lokier<ja...@shareable.org> wrote: > Why don't they just use Unison?
Because it doesn't work well. It is seriously unreliable with large files, on Linux or Windows. It also has a horrifying tendency to corrupt its own state databases, lock up, or exit unexpectedly. It also doesn't support --fuzzy, which is critical for getting delta transfers of large backup files that have "date-stamped" names. Finally, it's written in OCaml, so only two CS grad students in the whole world have any idea how to fix it. Realistically, rsync is the only free delta-transfer tool worth a damn (I've tried them all I think). So people are going to try to use it for just about everything, including things for which it just wasn't designed. And those same people will keep requesting features... the ungrateful bastards! Windows RDC is "free" if you have two Windows Server 2003 R2 licenses, I suppose... but I still use rsync for most things even on Windows Servers, since it has so many options. -- RPM -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
