Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

[Randy Westlund <rwestlun@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


Unison is exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks, Neil and Dustin.

Randy