DVCS-autosync

Posted May 13, 2011 18:50 UTC (Fri) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
Parent article: DVCS-autosync

Wouldn't it make more sense to base this on top of unison instead of a version control system?

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DVCS-autosync

Posted May 13, 2011 20:01 UTC (Fri) by iranzo (guest, #43448) [Link] (1 responses)

I was looking some alternatives to dropbox but on the same time allow multicomputer syncing in a reliable and automated way.

I'm still using unison on three computers to sync backups from station to server 1 or server 2.

I would really love some program to autosync between defined computers without the need of a central repository and with the ability to work offline, then sync between them, etc...

But that's gonna be a bit tricky :), would require some nat-transversal program for connecting computers between them like hamachi in order to sync and a good sync engine to deal with all changes that could happen on different computers and reconcile them...

DVCS-autosync

Posted May 14, 2011 6:24 UTC (Sat) by ptman (subscriber, #57271) [Link]

If you only sync in one direction (mirror), rsync is usually a better choice than unison as it uses a (somewhat) standard protocol instead of requiring the exact same version of unison in both ends.