I have been using unison version 2.17.1 to synchronise 25Gig of data between three geographically separate Windows 2000 servers over VPN links using the...
Stephen D Evans
unison@...
Feb 2, 2007 1:14 am
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Your analysis is almost correct - it's a Win32 API problem. The Native API, since at least NT4, supports longer than 250-some character file/directory...
I have been using UNISON for years, syncing on my laptop to an SD card in my PCMCIA card-reader. The other day, it crashed pretty bad, and when I tried to run...
I tried running V2.9.1 of Unison under Windows Vista. It failed; I didn't track any diagnostic information. Has anyone had success with this or other versions?...
Hello, I'm using unison to sync 2 computers in background mode. So I use - silent -prefer newer -times. It works great until I got in the situation where I had...
Sylvain, Thanks for maintaining unison on debian! A happy user, J...
Joris
joris@...
Feb 4, 2007 10:47 pm
6015
... I don't have Vista so I haven't been able to try it, but Cygwin has Unison packages for assorted versions from 2.9.1 through 2.17.1. You could try ...
Hello all, I've been using unison for quite a long time now, but pretty much only ever with the GUI and manually editing the profiles a little when I need to....
... I think most *nix users run Unison over SSH, and in that sense it works very well. However, the previous post is correct that Unison does not implement...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
Feb 5, 2007 8:20 pm
6019
Hello! ... I was advised by Chris Puttick to try using the i386 binaries on the x86_64 system and after using an elf statifier ...
Thomas Schwinge
tschwinge@...
Feb 6, 2007 1:59 pm
6020
Ha! I got it. The tmp file that's left behind after a crash needed to be deleted. After doing that, all was well. SD Shields...
... That's what I am doing. The only difference is that I'm running the remote machine from my home machine. So I've got the SSH server running on the home...
... plink is the command line version of putty, so you can use it from within batch files, as a unison configuration argument (SSHCMD), etc. putty is the GUI...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
Feb 6, 2007 2:33 pm
6023
... Great, thanks for that Derek! Do you know of any websites tutorials that run though exactly how to do all of this? I had lots of problems trying to set up...
... This has been discussed on this mailing list in the past. I found some of that discussion on the web here: ...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
Feb 7, 2007 3:21 am
6025
Hello all I tried to back up my SQL server data directory using unison and it could not back up any of the files in use by SQL server. I am wondering if there...
Tim Uckun
timuckun@...
Feb 7, 2007 3:23 am
6026
Hello, Here's the error message when testing with a single file to merge: <error_message> UNISON started propagating changes at 11:35:35 on 07 Feb 2007 diff3...
... Hash: SHA1 Tim, ... The best options would be either: - - shut down your SQL server, then run unison - - backup the database using SQL server backup...
Chris Shelton
cshelton@...
Feb 7, 2007 2:42 pm
6030
... No need. Make sure that C:\Program Files\PuTTY is in your path. Make in that folder a copy of plink and name it ssh2. Put in your unison profile sshversion...
... It's SSH. It's as secure as you can get with a remote communication. If you want to leave this running on the remote machine without your attendance, make...
... Thanks very much. It's as you said. And a pleasant surprise that the archive file format is unchanged from 2.17 to 2.26 so syncing is very easy. Maybe you...
... This is an extension of the discussion I saw a while back about Excel files being "modified" just by looking at them (a big design flaw in Microsoft...
Hi All... Look at the "read only recommended" option in Excel. This may help you. It keeps Excel from changing anything in the file unless you say you want to ...