I'm using version 2.9.1 on Debian stable. I'd like to enable backup. In default.prf I've tried - backup = Path * when I run unison it creates the proper...
I noticed that example profiles in the help only contain two ROOT keywords. I always assumed this to represent the two 'root' of the two different directory...
... OK I found a way to make backups work. In default.prf - # list to synchronize # directories path = scratch path = bin path = current # files path = .vimrc...
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Philippe Tremelet
Philippe.Tremelet@...
Jan 14, 2004 1:59 pm
Hi everybody, As I wanted to sync my Windows XP working repository with a Linux file server (which is daily saved), I installed UNISON few days ago and I am...
Perhaps I miss something but I don't know how to obtain a backup on the "server" side. Here is my wish: I synchronise two machines : A (a labtop) and B (a...
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Andrew Schulman
andrex@...
Jan 14, 2004 2:04 pm
... This seems desirable, but I don't think it's been implemented. ... Undefined at present....
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marknehemiah
marknehemiah@...
Jan 15, 2004 7:23 pm
I too am having this problem. Is there any ideas on how to work around this?? Mark...
Thank you all!!!! after reading some posts I was able to setup unison via ssh between two windows boxes and finally realize my dream of syncing two folders ...
Update, other issues? I have tried a non-recommended approach by syncing local drive to a mounted(remote drive). Unison cannot see the mounted drive files at...
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Trevor Jim
trevor@...
Jan 16, 2004 6:15 pm
... I'm not sure, you should give it a try. But I would also check whether the permissions on the environment file make a difference, I know that ssh is...
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Trevor Jim
trevor@...
Jan 16, 2004 6:30 pm
... Probably, this is not a user error. ... I've done enough research to see that this is an error that comes up for Windows, but I have not seen it reported...
... Try using unison.win32mingw.exe. MSVC seems to break unison's server mode like this. Max....
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Niels L Ellegaard
gnalle@...
Jan 16, 2004 9:41 pm
In the manual you ask for ideas for the setting of merge and merge2. The following seems to work for me. I do the diffs and choose "Save as merged" merge2 =...
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thinkcad
p.aubry@...
Jan 19, 2004 2:31 pm
I have a new problem with the characters "è" and "à" in the directory's name to be synchronized with UNISON with ssh connection customer win situation srv...
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Taneli Leppä
taneli@...
Jan 19, 2004 5:01 pm
Hello everyone, I'm setting up a web server cluster environment (beginning with 2 boxes). Files are updated on both machines and I'm thinking of running Unison...
I also am having this error. Has anyone heard of a workaround or how to fix?? Mark ... <stuart_holcombe@y...> ... error. ... to...
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John H.
mrmailer@...
Jan 21, 2004 1:32 am
I have latest unison for linux. It has worked fine for the people I set it up for for some time. However, they were trying to do something the other night,...
... it ... before ... server ... again? ... The behaviour you describe is as expected. Unison observed that the files had been deleted on one root, and synced...
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Andrew Black (li)
andrew-li@...
Jan 21, 2004 4:56 pm
Hi I have used unison on windows and linux and found it really useful. Has anyone ported it to VMS? If not, does anyone have a feel as to what is involved in...
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Laurent Franceschetti...
laurent.franceschetti...
Jan 21, 2004 5:50 pm
If my understanding is correct of what happened, that is the expected behaviour of unison. It forwards the changes made on one replica to the other. In...
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Yan Seiner
yan@...
Jan 21, 2004 6:12 pm
... Long ago there was discussion on this list about adding an "emergency brake" that would query the user prior to deleting more than X files. I had an...
""Long ago there was discussion on this list about adding an "emergency brake" that would query the user prior to deleting more than X files. I had an...
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wei wu
wwu0@...
Jan 21, 2004 9:16 pm
Hi there, I tried to run unison on web to synchronize files between two servers. I got the following errors message: warning: You have no controlling tty....
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John H.
mrmailer@...
Jan 22, 2004 12:24 am
ok, so what if you create a file on one? how does it know if it should delete that from the that one or copy it to the other? ... From: Max Bowsher [mailto:...
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John H.
mrmailer@...
Jan 22, 2004 12:24 am
unison is not being used for backup, but for syncing. in this case, they simply didn't know what they were doing. I will say this, though. if you add a file...
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David T-G
davidtg-unison@...
Jan 22, 2004 12:44 am
John -- ...and then John H. said... % % ok, so what if you create a file on one? how does it know if it should delete that from the that one or copy it to the...
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David T-G
davidtg-unison@...
Jan 22, 2004 1:35 am
John -- ...and then John H. said... % % unison is not being used for backup, but for syncing. in this case, they simply didn't know what they were doing. ...
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Alan Schmitt
alan.schmitt@...
Jan 22, 2004 12:38 pm
... And if you want to know even more, there also are some research papers available about Unison: ...
Hi, I tried unison today, and like it a lot. I have a cross-platform tool which could make very good use syncing of remote dirs. That's why i'm currently...
... Not among any of the developers that I've spoken with recently. If you'd like to give it a try yourself, though, there are plenty of people on the...
