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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by swiley on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:10AM (#10758819)
Just a note to anyone new to rsync and friends: Rsync is a really fast version of cp that also works over networks. Rsync does not go both ways /and/ handle file deletion (you have to choose one or the other), so it can't replace dropbox and syncthing for example.
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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by LeoPanthera on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:08AM (#10759136)
If you do want something that goes both ways, unison is essentially a bidirectional rsync.
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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by moviuro on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:27AM (#10759246)
An syncthing (http://syncthing.net) is a working unison :)

(See http://popho.be/#gift for some more details, search unison)

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by rsync on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:07PM (#10759476)
Also note - rsync.net has supported Unison since 2007, although these days we would recommend using attic or borg, which we now support.[1]

[1] As in, full, native support - not just using an sshfs mount...

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by LeoPanthera on Friday December 18, 2015 @02:07PM (#10760270)
Interesting. Both both and attic are new to me. What are the differences between them? They look very similar.

Edit: Never mind, I found a handy list of differences here: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/stable/#differences-be...

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by darklajid on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:22PM (#10781044)
Not sure if you'll get back to this thread, but .. is something like syncthing impossible to imagine for rsync.net?

I guess that's a 'daemon' vs. 'executed binary on the remote side', but I think that'd be awesome.

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by cm3 on Friday December 18, 2015 @03:11PM (#10760652)
I tried and failed to make Unison use its fast comparison method (timestamp and size) but FreeFileSync works great for that and I can recommend it especially for interactive syncing of folders. http://www.freefilesync.org/
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