[ale] One home directory

[Jeff Lightner]

Unison is based on rsync I believe.  Haven't used it but have heard good
things about it.

By unidirectional I assume you mean rsync only updates one side on a
given run.  I'm not really sure that is the case (I'd have to explore
flags) but even if it were it only means you'd need to run two separate
rsync jobs - one that used one side as the source and the other as the
target and another that used the original source as target and original
target as source.  It would be easy enough to put those in a script
together.  Unless you're running thousands of files in the directories
being so synchronized the second run should be very fast.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Pitts
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:50 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] One home directory

On 10/13/2009 01:22 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> rsync between laptop and desktop - use anacron to initiate it from the
> laptop so it only runs when the laptop is on. (Haven't used anacron
> myself but that's its purpose.) 

Rsync is unidirectional. Unison might work better in this instance. I
used it for desktop <-> laptop sync for a couple years.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

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All the best,
Brian Pitts
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