Re:"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper del...
by thelema314 on Friday December 30, 2011 @07:56AM
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Unison anyone? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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Re:"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper del...
by bryanlarsen on Friday December 30, 2011 @09:05AM
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I've been using Unison successfully on critical documents for over 5 years.
Re:"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper del...
by aoisjef on Friday December 30, 2011 @01:42PM
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I've just started using Unison and it exactly fits my needs.
Unlike dropbox, it only does work when I run it, and I can manually sort through the conflicts when I choose to run it (which is a good thing).
It also doesn't require a central server, so I can just use it to sync my laptop and PC.
Tarsnap is used for offsite backup, which I trust much more than myself or dropbox.
Re:"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper del...
by gwillen on Friday December 30, 2011 @02:33PM
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Unison has mostly been trouble for me. I'm definitely in need of a replacement for it. Doing point to multipoint syncing, it tends to get confused and need to be manually resynchronized; and above a certain total directory byte size, which I've long since exceeded, it can't sync at all (and you have to manually break your directory into pieces and sync them separately.)