[ale] File server syncronization

scott scott at sboss.net
Wed Jan 27 21:07:12 EST 2010


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unison works very similar to rsync except that it is bidirectional.

different  options/flags.

unison is great at going between different O/Ses (I have used it between windows and solaris and windows and linux and it worked great!!).

Scott

On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:51 PM, David Ritchie wrote:

> Oh, BTW :^) one other complication - one of the boxes is HP-UX.
> Scratch DRBD (which
> would be an ideal approach, as only changed blocks are propagated)...
> I may get to tell them
> the complications (for example, copying only the first half of a file)
> that you can run into.
> 
> The prevention of multiple syncs via use of a locking file (don't
> start another session if the other is already running) is something I
> thought of independently, but thanks for mentioning it...
> 
> Unison sounds like it could be a good approach,but I need to set it up
> here and play with it (Objective CAML source code? Huh? Oh well,
> sounds like another growth experience....).
> 
> At least  it does appear that it has already been ported to HP-UX and
> obviously Linux... and
> it appears to have been carefully thought out and refined over time. I
> don't want to reinvent
> the wheel here, so it sounds like a good solution to me. Does anyone
> actually have
> any experience with Unison and is willing to comment on it?
> 
> Best regards,
> Dave Ritchie
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