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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:33:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121202203320.4ce86509@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9KLYV_JaGTwOtX_TQRQGV7n-+boNZhXk5m8KPD6RiSchxZYA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote:

> What utilities do you guys use?  Is there a better way to do this?  It
> would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already
> clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order

net-misc/unison

Think of it as a two-way rsync. It keeps track of what has changed and
been synced on each host and makes changes in both directions on a single
run. If you add or modify a file on one side, it copies it over. If you
delete a file on one side it deletes if from the other and if you modify
a file on both sides since the last run, it asks what you want to do (or
skips the file if running non-interactively).

-- 
Neil Bothwick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-02 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-02 17:21 [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files? Randy Westlund
2012-12-02 19:02 ` Mark Knecht
2012-12-02 19:07 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-02 20:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-02 20:33 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-12-03  3:14   ` Dustin C. Hatch
2012-12-03  3:44     ` Randy Westlund
2012-12-03  5:12 ` Joseph

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