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Unison File Synchronizer
Introduction
Unison is a cross-platform and robust file synchronisation tool. Version 2.13.16 of Unison is installed on both fileservers russel.inf.unibz.it
and actarus.inf.unibz.it
.
Links
- Unison File Synchronizer: Liberation through Data Replication is an excellent introduction to Unison
Installation and Use
MacOS X
- Install Unison using MacPorts (former DarwinPorts). See http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2006-07/complete_bi_directional_home_sync_and_backup_with_unison for a short tutorial on installing unison.
- Unison wiki has a specific section on unison and OSX
Tips and Tricks
- You should use
ssh
to connect to the server, by specifying one of the roots as ssh://stessaris@russel.inf.unibz.it/home folder. To discover the exact path of your home folder you can connect to the server via ssh and type pwd on the command line. E.g. my unison configuration file contains the line
root = ssh://stessaris@russel.inf.unibz.it//home/professors/stessaris
- Under some circumstances Excel modifies its files without changing the timestamps. Obviously, this confuses file synchronization tools. If you get an error on an excel file you can fix if by updating the timestamp of the file with the command line
touch
filename and running unison again.
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