[plug] automating the syncing of my laptop/work/home

[Bill Kenworthy]

Unison rulz!

Thanks
Billk


On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:58, Russell Steicke wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I am looking at automating (scripting) the syncing my laptop/work/home
> > to some remote directories across multiple machines/OS's for backup,
> > access when the laptop is standalone etc.  Only some are on machines
> > with rsync,which I have used in the past, but all have ftp/scp.  I have
> > just been reading about "fmirror" and it may do the trick - but does it
> > do a two way sync?  Is there an scp alternative?
> 
> I've never used it, but you might have a look at coda: "Coda is a 
> distributed filesystem..", and one of its features is "disconnected 
> operation for mobile computing".
> 
>    http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
> 
> There's also a thing called unison
> 
>    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> 
> which has a package in woody, if you're on debian.  It claims not to 
> need kernel changes or root access.
> 
> BTW, freshmeat searches for "synchroniz file" and "distributed file 
> system" will find both of these, plus more.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Russell Steicke
> 
> AU National Linux Conference 2003: http://conf.linux.org.au/
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