Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto:
>> Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you move a
>> file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the new
>> location has the same hash as the file at the old location. As a result, it
>> does not transmit the file anew to the remote host, but instead copies it
>> locally on the remote host.
>>
>> Since Unison uses ssh underneath, you can use ssh’s transparent compression
>> to speed up the transfer.
> Unison sounds interesting. How does it handle conflicts (eg, file is changed on
> both sides?)
>
I use Unison GUI on one of the two machines (on the other peer it's just 
a program invoked from the ssh). When the analysis is complete, the GUI 
shows what it would do to sync the machines, indicating the conflicts 
and giving you the chance to choose what to do.

I believe it can be used from the command line or maybe even in batch 
mode instead of GUI but I never did it that way.

raffaele