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

[Alarig Le Lay <alarig@swordarmor.fr>]

On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between 
> the four PC systems in my household.
> 
> 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.

I’ve been thinking about using it to synchronise dovecot maildir folders,
since dsync is now deprecated. But I’m not sure about it as I never used
it under “heavy” loads. Do you have any thoughts about it?

-- 
Alarig