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How to use unison's path option with multiple paths?
I want to sync the following locations using unison:
/home/user/Audiobooks with /shared/Audiobooks
/home/user/Music with /shared/Music
/home/user/Podcasts with /shared/Podcasts
What would the ...
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Is there a way to tell unison to first delete removed staff and then to copy added staff?
I use unison to sync two local folders on external usb.
In the past I've noticed that Unison fitst copy new files and then it deletes removed files.
This caused me troubles when space on devices ...
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How to sync only one file type with Unison?
Let's say that I want to sync a folder with unison, but I want to sync only .jpg files.
How I could do that?
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Syncing symbolic links with Unison
I'm running the same version of Unison on OS X Lion and Ubuntu 11.10; it works great, so far. Now I'm trying to sync multiple folders in one swoop. The official tutorial suggests creating a folder ...
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Does Unison socket mode support ipv6
I have been using Unison for quite some time now for synchronizing data between my machines, and I am very happy with it. Now I need to synchronize two new machines connected via ipv6, but they won't ...
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Scoping ignore declarations in unison
I am using unison to synchronize two computers, and generally I would like to ignore all hidden files except a few. I have a unison preference file (default.prf) that looks as follows:
# Unison ...
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Syncing or version controlling virtualbox VMs
I recently set up a handy Arch Linux development environment inside a VirtualBox VM on Windows 7.
How can I keep this development environment in version control so I can simply "check out" the ...
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Can Unison ignore at least one of the following: file size, permissions, timestamp?
Even better would be if I can set special conditions like "Ignore file size differences of 100kB" and so on.
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Unison: ignore by size?
rsync has:
--max-size=SIZE don't transfer any file larger than SIZE
Does unison have a similar option?
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make rsync wait for a confirmation before actually changing files
I am making a synchronization between a local and a remote folder. It happened that I lost one file by a stupid command.
I am used to unison and to the way you confirm ("go?") before doing the ...
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Is there a way to globally specify where Unison should log?
I'd really like to have Unison log only to a specific file for ALL of my profiles. I have a number of different profiles, 3 local ones, and one remote one (my laptop syncs with this computer to keep ...
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Unix Permissions: Enable access to files no matter the user?
I've been using Linux for a long time and I still am completely in the dark about how file permissions really work. With that in mind, does anyone have any books or thorough guides I could read to ...
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Annoying unison.log on Mac OS X home
Unison GUI for OS X keeps creating a "unison.log" file in my home directory.
That's retarded, it should either hide the file (".unison.log"), or place it in a proper place, not in my home directory.
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sync mobile device with a local server
Hello I have a two way synch scenario:
multiple archos android client devices (we plan to have up to 100 of them) that need to update small files (little txt logs) to a central server
central server ...
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Use unison between two Windows PCs
I have used unison to sync files between Linux and Windows XP.
Now I need to sync files between two Windows XP machines. Has anyone done it before?
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One-way syncing/backup with Unison
I'm using the syncing tool Unison with my Mac OSX and Ubuntu 9.10 machines to backup my music from Mac to Ubuntu. The thing is, I want to have my Mac be the source and Ubuntu be the target so that the ...
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File synchronization between 3 places?
I need a way to synchronize files between 3 places, all of which can be modified.
All places are on Linux, and the synchronization tool has to run from cronjob - not manually!.
I tried unison, but I ...
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How reliable is Unison? Did it ever ruin your data?
I am interested in facts, when using unison ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) ruined your data? I want to find out about its reliability.
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Unison on OS X — Cannot connect
I am trying to use Unison on command line.
I have installed the command line tool, but running unison brings the GUI up. When I enter the password, the GUI stays at "connecting..." dialog and it ...
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How to Duplicate Dropbox/Ubuntu One Folder Synchronization In-House?
I really like using Dropbox and Ubuntu One, but they don't quite cut it for my workplace, because of restrictions on using external services.
Is there software (preferably free/open source) that we ...
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Best way to automatically synchronize files between Linux and Windows
My first choice was rsync but it caused some issues and is too manual.
My second choice, currently under evaluation is Unison. Are there any other good options for bi-directional auto-syncing?
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