On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:22:51PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > I disagree with Devin's recommendation of rsync. Rsync is really for > one-way syncs, not multi-way. Unison is probably your best bet. I'm > sure you can script it. There's probably even a Windows version of the > utility. Though I'd do as you alluded to and mount the windows share > onto my linux machine via cifs and operate on it there.
By the way, if anyone ever runs into a good alternative to Unison, please let me know. I use Unison on a daily basis, but I have some serious problems with it: 1) Development seems to have stalled. The fact that it is written in ocaml can't help. 2) The UI is absolutely awful. I can't even see the whole window on my laptop screen, and it doesn't provide any way to resize. 3) It does a good job of syncing between two machines, but it gets awkward if you're syncing between multiple machines. It's usually okay if you have a master and multiple slaves, but it behaves strangely if your machines are peers. It has particular problems when you move or delete files and sync between multiple machines in a non-master-slave setup. Anyway, I use Unison regularly, but it would be nice to see a successor. I would also be ecstatic if rsync were to get an option to do multi-way synchronization. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
