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There's a minor problem with the author of the software's naming of the utility. There is already a copyrighted program for the Mac called Unison which is a Usenet newsreader application. I sincerely hope they get things straightened out on this as it sounds like a very nice application.
MacOSX Unison=new commercial usenet reader http://www.panic.com/unison/index.html
*nux/Win Unison=older opensource file sync utiltiy http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Why considering MacOSX is built on BSD, you might even be able to use Unison to snyc your Unison with other systems' Unison. ; ]
*nux/Win Unison=older opensource file sync utiltiy http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Why considering MacOSX is built on BSD, you might even be able to use Unison to snyc your Unison with other systems' Unison. ; ]
sounds like mirrordir.
mirrordir has been out for some time and works the same way. also has ability to ssh and ipaddr:/name sync.
Best of all, I have been using mirrordir for 3 years, I know it, I know how to use it, I know how to keep her inputs happy.
I already have something that works and works well.
mirrordir has been out for some time and works the same way. also has ability to ssh and ipaddr:/name sync.
Best of all, I have been using mirrordir for 3 years, I know it, I know how to use it, I know how to keep her inputs happy.
I already have something that works and works well.
Will Unison synchronize a computer with corporate network storage folders when I return to the office or prepare to go work from home?
I've been using it for a few years and it worked very well. I've sync'd files between Linux, Windows and Novell Netware.
Easiest way to do it is if you can map a drive to your network resource. Then Unison will just treat your files as if they were local to your computer.
If you have admin rights to the server, it would speed things up if you run Unison in server mode. It is pretty well explained in Unison Help file (type unison -help)
First sync will be slow (depends on how many files you have to sync) but after that it gets much faster. If you are unhappy with its speed after the first sync, try -fastcheck option. I sync about 200GB worth of files and if there are only minor changes, it doesn't take more than a few minutes.
Oleg Kio
Easiest way to do it is if you can map a drive to your network resource. Then Unison will just treat your files as if they were local to your computer.
If you have admin rights to the server, it would speed things up if you run Unison in server mode. It is pretty well explained in Unison Help file (type unison -help)
First sync will be slow (depends on how many files you have to sync) but after that it gets much faster. If you are unhappy with its speed after the first sync, try -fastcheck option. I sync about 200GB worth of files and if there are only minor changes, it doesn't take more than a few minutes.
Oleg Kio
...I've tried Unison, and it works, but it's a PITA to configure. In the end, the performance wasn't worth the amount of configuration necessary to keep my computers in sync. Fortunately, Microsoft provides a great tool called "SyncToy", and it's anything but a toy. It took about 10 minutes to get all of the directories I wanted synced in the method I wanted to sync them. It's not as fast as Unison, but since I have it sync in the middle of the night, I don't care.
Been using it for a year now and it just works and is easy to set up with several sync options to pick from.
I agree, somewhat, with the other posters. If you just want to sync your own stuff, using a nice GUI, there are other freeware and commercial choices. However, the advantage of Unison is that it supports bi-directional sync. That is, it doesn't just sync your stuff to another directory, it syncs the other way too. For us, it means we can have a directory at all 3 of our sites, users at any of the sites can drop files into their local directory, and the files or changes get synced automatically to the other sites. Most syncing tools are one-way. It also does delta-syncing, copying over just the bytes that have changed, which many other sync tools don't do either. It did require a little scripting/batch file, and a Scheduled Task, but that was trivial. It works over SSH, over the internet, and so is a very handy remote syncing solution.
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