On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:06 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote: > Been some talk of rsync lately. Has anyone played with Unison? > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison > > Great replacement for rsync because it will go both ways.
I've used Unison, and I wouldn't call it a replacement for rsync: both tools have their niches. Anything two-way should be done with a proper two-way tool such as Unison, but for one-way copies, rsync is simpler and stateless and has some useful features that Unison doesn't. Matt
