Greetings, I'm trying to use Unison as a backup solution. My intention was to have it run each night between 11 PM and 5 AM. I figured that way.. even if it's...
Michael Wendt
mike@...
Mar 1, 2006 6:15 pm
4872
... It should do this step once as long as you don't change paths in your configuration files or remove the archive files it creates. I have done transfers...
You can expect a long (L..O..N..G) delay while unison is creating its index but after the initial build the checks are very quick. For example: We synchronize...
Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong with pathname globbing? In my .prf file I have: path = bin/*.sh This DOES NOT copy files in bin ending in ".sh"....
I just upgraded from 2.10 to 2.13 and then to 2.17 because I had some trouble with backup errors with 2.13. Now with 2.17 I am getting a failure just trying to...
John and John, Thanks for your answers. One additional question. I know that if the transfer process gets interrupted, Unison will basically pick up where it...
Michael Wendt
mike@...
Mar 2, 2006 7:49 am
4877
... I think it starts again from scratch if the indexing is interrupted, but I'm not sure. You could try building the index for one subtree at a time with the...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
Mar 2, 2006 8:17 am
4878
Hello all, I'm fairly new to Unison, but it's just fantastic! I'm wanting to delve a bit deeper into it now that I'm more secure that it's very good at doing...
Damian Surr
damian@...
Mar 2, 2006 11:50 am
4879
I'm pretty sure that the indexing starts from scratch. I sync parts of the root when I'm doing a sync for a large data set for the first time. I do this in the...
You could try using -rshcmd and -rshargs to call putty directly. There are two ways to automate the authentication: - set up server sshd to not require...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:55 pm
4881
Howdy, Unison V2.17.1 I am attempting to use Unison to backup from my W2K box to a network storage device. I have a local file - c:\tmp\sub1\sub2\file.txt when...
The startup windows size for the Unison graphics version on my Windows XP PC is now stuck at about 1600 wide by 500 tall. This is the main graphics window...
... lablgtk2 is a pretty thin wrapper around gtk2, so I think default settings are unlikely to live there. The window creation code in unison all lives in...
I have profile that successfully transferred files from one computer to another. However paths more than one level deep, like "cygwin/home", are not working....
Thanks Karl! I did install a new version of Gimp and GTK at about the time the problem started. I removed GTK version 2.8.9 and installed version 2.6.10...
Hi, Make sure TEMP dir exist on both roots. Unison seems to not create the parent dir if it doesn't already exist. So if you have D:/TEMP but do NOT have...
Hi Sébastien, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:26:57PM +0100, Sébastien Kunz-Jacques wrote: [...] ... Thanks a lot for this bug report. The bug is now fixed in...
I wrote last week for advice on handling the indexing of large archives. I was finally able to get my 50 GB archive indexed (by letting it run for about 36...
Michael Wendt
mike@...
Mar 7, 2006 9:46 pm
4891
... Did you try to run unsion a second time? At least on my network with unison 2.13.16 every time I muck around with the configuration files unison will...
... I don't think that's it. I've run it a couple of times with the same profile. I realized last night that the guy has real-time virus scanning on his...
Michael Wendt
mike@...
Mar 8, 2006 6:01 pm
4893
... The scan is not doing very much computing -- just fingerprinting the bits as they come in from the disk -- so it should not take very much longer than...
... Heh. Moved a chunk of the archive from the guy's server to a standalone machine. The scan went incredibly faster. When I realized the standalone machine...
Michael Wendt
mike@...
Mar 10, 2006 8:31 am
4895
I'm trying to align a program source tree between Windows and Linux without success. Currently the master copy of the sources is on Linux and periodically the...
... Not really, RAID 5 will only be slower for large read operations where there are less than 6 disks in the array. If you only have four disks and can afford...
If I open Unison 2.12.0 on my Win XP laptop, the resulting window is too wide and there is no way to shrink it. This means that the vertical scrollbas is just...
... For source code / automatic line end conversion, you might want to look into a full Version Management system, like CVS. With CVS, there's a single master...
... This is a very good solution and it works very well. I have been using cvs for 5 years in a windows / linux environment and I can't see developing without...
Hi all, im trying to use unison to create a backup system for a heterogenous network of Windows XP and Unix machines. I turned to Unison because of the ...
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