Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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Getting a simple list of changed files from unison
I have a filesystem that is changed on two servers and also needs to be replicated to Amazon S3.
Until recently, syncing the filesystem between the two servers using Unison, and then copying to S3 ...
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How do I ignore errors with Unison?
I'm trying to synchronize two directories using Unison, however if it encounters a file with an error, then it skips the entire directory! I don't believe it should skip the whole directory, and ...
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How to use Unison or rsync for one to many sync-scenario?
There are some folder that I want to integrate to one folder on the remote end. This is the sample structure from the source folder:
c:\Repli\Folder1\file1.txt
c:\Repli\Folder1\file2.txt
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Is there a global config file for Unison synchronization tool?
I'd like all my unison profiles to have
merge = Name * -> meld CURRENT1 CURRENT2
diff = /usr/bin/meld CURRENT1 CURRENT2
confirmmerge = true
as options. I know I can add these options to each ...
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Is there anything more than `fastcheck` to speed up Unison?
I routinely use Unison to sync users' home directories between workstations where the user is expected to work. Unfortunately, as the firm grows, the Unison become slower and slower in determining ...
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Unison segmentation fault during initial sync
I have spent the day googleing this and I am starting to get frustrated at this point. Here's the skinny:
I have a brand new VM that I created today. 4 Core CPU -- 8GB RAM -- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. ...
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Load Balancing + Folder sync
i've 2 servers.
Server A : contains
mysql
apache
nginx
Server B : contains
apache
memcached
rsync cron ( each 3 mins ) that pulls the /var/www/ content and update its own
I'm using:
nginx ...
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How to prevent unison syncronize file when file process uploading
I use CentOS 5.8 Final.
My situation is I running unison with cron where script below :
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/unison >/dev/null 2>&1
and default profile like below :
root = /var/www
root = ...
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How do I setup unison to sync a folder one way
I have a 1tb NAS that has a 1tb usb external hard attached
I have prepared the file system on the usb disk and mounted it
I want to 100% sync my data from my nas to the usb disk - but I want it to ...
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Why is Unison looking for changes outside of Path?
When I start Unison, it searches for changes outside of my specified Path, but seems to only sync the actual Path folders, as it should. Why is it searching everything? And how can I go about stopping ...
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Unison File-Synchronizer
I currently have Unison installed as a one way sync (mirroring) between a CentOS/Win7 box.
When configured as a one way sync what happens if I change a filename on the source box? Will unison delete ...
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Boot and/or synchronise linux image from network
I'm looking for a solution (or at least for some guide/pathway/manual) to boot AND SYNCHRONISE Linux images from network. I already understand how network boot (PXE, DHCP, TFTP) works.
In my ...
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Run unison in background on startup?
I'm running Debian 6 64bit.
What I'm trying to do is run Unison on startup to constantly monitor files on the LAMP server I have running on my VM and sync that with the VM Shared folder.
while true
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How can I tell unison to first delete files and then to copy changed ones?
Unison sorts changes in order to first add new files and then to delete removed files.
When I use it to synchronize 2 USB drives, I can have problems with that if there's no room enough in the drives ...
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unison over ssh with white spaces in directories
I want to do something like this
unison 192.168.1.1:/data/<example directory> /data/server_backup
There is a space in the source directory. Is there some way I can do this with out using "\"
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Recommended networked file system for web servers?
If I have two web servers, what would the best way to keep their files in sync?
Unfortunately the sites themselves cannot be altered significantly.
Most of them are Wordpress based, but there are ...
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Watching for Unison errors
We've implemented a folder sync across two servers sitting in two different data centres using Unison. It's crucial for us that this folder sync work as expected as our SLAs depend on the data being ...
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Remotely use root over ssh for unison
I'm a little confused on how to run unison to sync files with group and owner attributes on an ubuntu system, as you need to be root. But I need to do this remotely and automated. I know I can set up ...
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Solution for two-way file-system transparent solution
I need to implement some sort of HA setup where 2 servers need to be able to always be in sync, no matter on which one you write on.
The DB part can be covered by a master-master replication setup.
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how i can disable delete file option in unison sync tool?
i want to disable delete option of unison in other word i want unison tool always copy file [don't delete anything]. I read manual but i can not find what i need .
for example we have two folder ...
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How i can use unison to sync. files of folder with the latest modification time?
I try Unison. It's two-way file synchronization software yes ??.
Sooner or later I have to handle collisions (someone/something modified both files - How i can merge changes or just overwrite older ...
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sync a directory between OSX and Ubuntu
I need a good way to sync a directory between my OSX 10.6 laptop and my Ubuntu Desktop. Dropbox would obviously be a great choice, however the directory I need to sync is owned by root on both ...
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unison / rsync getting copies of changed files
So the place where I'm working at has a nifty little Red Hat Enterprise server and a tape backup system that they want me to get working backing up the large amounts of video content and resources ...
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lsync, unison or some other inotify auto-syncing tool..?
I have an app farm which generates thumbnails and makes them available to a web server farm using nfs. However the performance is so poor so I am going to make a local copy of the files on each web ...
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Is there a way to replicate a very large file shares in real-time?
I have an hourly cron job that copies about 40GB of data from a source folder into a new folder with the hour appended on the end.
When it's done, the job prunes anything older than 24 hours. This ...
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Unison synchronization problem. Roots are not identical after synchronization
When I synchronize two folders using Unison, only one of the roots seems to be affected. Below are all the information I would think is necessary to figure out why it is working like it is.
I'm using
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Synchronizing very large folder structures
We have a folder structure on our intranet which contains around 800,000 files divvied up into around 4,000 folders. We need to synchronize this to a small cluster of machines in our DMZs. The depth ...
