Hello, I'm a Ubuntu Feisty user and i recently discover this utility. Before i used SecondCopy on windows. I realized that using the parameters -backup "Name...
Hi! I am using Unison to synchronize between a folder on my Windows XP machine and a folder on a Samba shared drive. I often get a message like "Fatal error....
I'm syncing a Windows directory tree with a UNIX directory tree. When a new dir or tree is created on the UNIX side, it is correctly propagated to the Windows...
Hi, I'm trying to synchronize the Outlook folder on the user's profile directory from a Windows client to a shared drive (also windows). Most of the files in...
Try using a newer version of Unison: the backup functionality has been revised, and may be more to your liking now. The Ubuntu universe has 2.13, but you...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
May 2, 2007 6:12 pm
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Hello everyone, I've just joined this list, and am still considering whether Unison is right for me. Before I read the manual in depth (I've scanned it), I'd ...
... Hash: SHA1 Hello! I've downloaded recent version of Unison for win32 2.27.24 This bug applies to both gtk+ and text versions. HOW TO REPRODUCE: Create new...
Hi. Is there a way to restrict what paths the *server* unison will allow to be synced? Specifically, I want to use a ssh key with no password, but restricted...
No, there is no way to do this. (But, if I've understood what you want, it would be insecure anyway -- if unrestricted ssh access were allowed, a client could...
... Assuming you control the server, what you probably really want is to just put the user in question into a chroot'd environment. There are various ways of...
... There's a program called scponly that might work for you. It's basically a restricted shell that lets the user only perform scp (hence "scponly"). It...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
May 7, 2007 4:45 pm
6354
It would be nice to add a -sshremoteaction *** or such, whose argument would be a command or list of commands to be executed on the remote side just after the...
Well, actually that is one way to make unison even slower, but the problem is real: unison is extremely slow in detecting changes under windows. I have an easy...
... There's a way to do this now, without adding a new option to unison: call unison -servercmd /path/to/script where /path/to/script names a script that does...
I'm fairly new to using Unison, but in my experience so far, syncing from Windows to an external drive is very slow (fastcheck option doesn't appear to do...
Guess I found at least a part of my problem. The manual says: Fast Update Detection If your replicas are large and at least one of them is on a Windows system,...
We've found that, in using Unison between a Linux box and Windows 2003 server with 2GB of RAM(I know, I know...) across a series of quite large directory...
Hi, I also have a unison speed problem that is different. I have lots of small files that add up to about 9 gigs of data. When I'm transfering the files the...
Robert Easthope
r.easthope@...
May 9, 2007 6:19 pm
6362
I don't have VPN to my office, but there is ssh access. The setup is like this: - I have a machine at home (hostA) - There is a machine in the office (hostB),...
Good morning group, I just made unison UISTYLE=text on cygwin. I know that I can manually move the .exe file to /usr/bin, but I was wondering if I will miss...
Hello, Unison has been great for me. I've been using it for few years now. I don't know if I am requesting a feature or just a solution on how to use Unison....
I am having errors occur when Unison tries to sync to a NAS Unit from a Windows Server with NTFS. I cn use the native copy just fine. Unison fails with "Failed...
... This is just a guess ... well, a series of guesses ... NTFS uses Access Control Lists, which Unison doesn't entirely understand. Maybe your NAS uses...
Derek Rayside
drayside@...
May 11, 2007 12:19 am
6368
Hi All. I'm trying unison for the first time and while it appears to be exactly what I'm looking for, I'm not having a great deal of success. I have 5 linux...
Luke Pascoe
luke@...
May 11, 2007 12:20 am
6369
Hi, I have been using Unison quite successful for 3 years now and I am very happy with it. Now I divided my network into 2 networks. One network for PC's with ...
Thanks for posting this -- looks very useful. I won't be able to incorporate it myself (don't have a windows box to develop on), but if someone wants to take...
I just re-read the documentation for the GetFileInformationByHandle function in Windows and found that what I suggested will not be reliable, especially on...
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