suggestions for sync

[Phil Marsh]

Thanks for the suggestions,
Phil

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 9:53 AM Stephen Warren <
swarren-tag-list-nclug at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> On 9/14/23 17:57, Phil Marsh wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> > I've had good luck with Unison. The only issue is that it appears to me
> > that it's designed to sync directories on the same machine. However, I'm
> > thinking it could be used with NFS mounts to sync across LAN or internet.
> > While this isn't the most elegant solution, I think it could be the
> > best. The only issue is what happens if the NFS fails to mount? Would
> > Unison then either delete all the files on the synced directory or copy
> > the files to the empty mountpoint?
>
> At least the GUI version of Unison won't have this issue; it displays a
> list of changes that it is going to propagate, and you have the option
> to abort the sync, or tell it to sync only a subset of the changes. I
> have never used the text-mode version of Unison, but I imagine it works
> the same.
>
> As Bob mentioned, it will run over SSH just fine. SSH is 100% the
> easiest way to sync between machines. While I do have a VPN between some
> of my machines, I still sync over SSH on top of the VPN simply because
> this is simple and "just works"; no need to mess around setting up
> anything else when SSH is already there.
>
>
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