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Subject:    [unison-users] Re: Evaluating Unison
From:       "pickscrape1976" <pickscrape () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-29 18:42:53
Message-ID: euh1bd+p72n () eGroups ! com
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Thank you all very much for your replies. I'm now that little but more
knowledgeable now regarding what unison does. :)

A commercial solution isn't an option in our situation, we'd much
prefer to stay open source.

We have pretty much decided to go with a custom transport solution for
small numbers of file changes, and possibly rsync for larger numbers.

The reason why I though unison might be better for this purpose than
rsync is that (as I understand it) rsync works by working out what is
different between to two hosts and sending than information, while in
my case I only want to send what has changed on the server to the
remote host. Working out the differences is a waste of time in this
case as the server sending process doesn't need to care about anything
that is already on the remote system. Subtle difference, but it's
there. I understood unison to store a local 'cache' of the sync status
which I thought might have made figuring out this very quick and with
zero load on the client (prior to the actual transfer taking place).

Anyway, thanks again!

--=20

Russ.


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            <p>Thank you all very much for your replies. I'm now that little but \
more<br> knowledgeable now regarding what unison does. :)<br>
<br>
A commercial solution isn't an option in our situation, we'd much<br>
prefer to stay open source.<br>
<br>
We have pretty much decided to go with a custom transport solution for<br>
small numbers of file changes, and possibly rsync for larger numbers.<br>
<br>
The reason why I though unison might be better for this purpose than<br>
rsync is that (as I understand it) rsync works by working out what is<br>
different between to two hosts and sending than information, while in<br>
my case I only want to send what has changed on the server to the<br>
remote host. Working out the differences is a waste of time in this<br>
case as the server sending process doesn't need to care about anything<br>
that is already on the remote system. Subtle difference, but it's<br>
there. I understood unison to store a local 'cache' of the sync status<br>
which I thought might have made figuring out this very quick and with<br>
zero load on the client (prior to the actual transfer taking place).<br>
<br>
Anyway, thanks again!<br>
<br>
-- <br>
<br>
Russ.<br>
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