From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E04A1381F3 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C53F121C084; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f181.google.com (mail-vc0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59D8921C074 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id gb30so1456869vcb.40 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:44:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4DUMflGjVXmLMCbGxc71fvu9t372JWmX5SsPBXRIxeI=; b=qJWYR6SKd596LoxM9ibmYu9FLOOCI1JQWYF8Zi7QxrcWMJz7qYFd8VbM9YcwyyrjC5 GuLI4FEuHJFA4KJKI/ZWO/mFC0uKmHi7b6xEFceo5Qt8TlQaemBhpJOQbLyEuCFtYYMu ZmPcaPlhnzTVreDRKncYLfXp2G9jWqc2RIvafrQdxHEzQNNHeuTB/Eh9BWTbJRmJSIK0 YP4XTgp5lz3ZIedbzSHEfuDr8rtTJJyj6HXpQsnHwg3UMFJ2mTIc/M+yNBWaQ9tgTuuM TpqnCFqkWvRGdRwgep045oixQ/vEnSDhvAtBKNT/iIZqF3jRMBXykKXh6NC3kw0g5Mw6 ML/g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.66.10 with SMTP id b10mr6560463vdt.71.1354506265547; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.140.136 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:44:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50BC191D.3080008@gmail.com> References: <20121202203320.4ce86509@digimed.co.uk> <50BC191D.3080008@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 22:44:25 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files? From: Randy Westlund To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 788ec0a0-9b47-4948-a942-ec5abd7e86d2 X-Archives-Hash: 6d01bb9627944e8fb6ecb3507bc47f59 On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wr= ote: > 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 eve= nt > 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. > > -- > =E2=99=ABDustin > Unison is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Neil and Dustin. Randy