From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:14:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BC191D.3080008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121202203320.4ce86509@digimed.co.uk>
On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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
>
>
I use unison to emulate Windows's "offline files" feature for several
subdirectories in ~, and I can say it works really well. It took me
quite some time to understand all of its options, and it has some very
strange behavioral quirks which are easily worked around, but I like the
what I ended up with. I currently have it set up to automatically
synchronize a couple of locations on my notebook with a share on my file
server about every five minutes. If the server is unavailable (i.e. I am
not at home), it exits silently, but will try again at the next
scheduled time. In the event of file conflicts (i.e. I changed the same
file on the server and on the notebook between syncs), it sends me an
email listing the conflicting filenames, and I can look into it later.
--
♫Dustin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 3:16 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
2012-12-03 3:14 ` Dustin C. Hatch [this message]
2012-12-03 3:44 ` Randy Westlund
2012-12-03 5:12 ` Joseph
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