... To get it clear in my mind. When you set backuploc=central and backupdir=/some/dir/ in a *.prf file the same directory will be used on both hosts? For a...
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Pierce Benjamin C.
benjamincpierce
Mar 1, 2011 5:23 pm
... This is an instance of a common feature request -- to make the "ignore" functionality more flexible in various ways. There are two basic design issues to...
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BSNTech
spraker
Mar 1, 2011 9:25 pm
Hello all, I use unison to replicate home directories amongst two servers for my web hosting business so customers have two servers they are hosted on. How...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 2, 2011 8:13 am
... I'm replicating huge datasets (including a 60 GB iTunes library and a 40 GB iPhoto library), and update detection takes about one minute. What takes a hit...
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rixed@...
rixed
Mar 2, 2011 8:16 am
... At the top of my head, I'd say that files should be ignored both when sending (ie. localy ignored when localy changed) and receiving (ie. when localy...
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Ansgar Jazdzewski
ansgar.jazdzewski@...
Mar 2, 2011 8:16 am
hi, I did an automatic logon script, that sync the user's home on login an logoff to the server. My problem ist that some unix-socket files in the home that...
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Koen De Proft
koendeproft
Mar 2, 2011 10:57 am
Hi list, The unison temporary file is left behind on the destination whenever a transfer is interrupted and the source file is moved/renamed/deleted. I know ...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Mar 2, 2011 1:29 pm
Old temporary files are deleted after a few weeks. - Benjamin...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Mar 2, 2011 1:52 pm
... There is just one profile -- the one on the client. The settings from that file are propagated to the server at the beginning of the run. - B...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Mar 2, 2011 6:58 pm
... There's no special way to do this, but of course one can generate a profile on the fly (using find or whatever) that includes all the "ignore = Path XXX"...
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David
david_r_whiting
Mar 3, 2011 10:06 am
Hi, I've just seen this message[1] which indicates that update detection on around 100Gb takes about a minute. I've got a 20Gb partition with 17Gb of data on...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 3, 2011 10:15 am
... Very probably. On some file systems, Unison is able to detect very quickly that some files have not changed without having to look at their contents. I'm...
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david whiting
david_r_whiting
Mar 3, 2011 1:20 pm
... Thanks. I've formatted it with ext3, inside an encrypted partition using cryptsetup (not vfat). So when it is mounted it should appear as a standard ext3...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 3, 2011 6:13 pm
... This should not be a problem. You need to make sure you're using "fastcheck=true" (from memory, I have very bad internet access to check the manual from...
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mypooltile
Mar 3, 2011 6:59 pm
Hello, I am using unison 2.27.57 to synchronize between RH linux and WindowsXP Recently my unison sessions started crashing because unison tries to write a...
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dedebaykus
Mar 3, 2011 8:09 pm
Hi I am using Unison and Ssh to sync. it works well but I have certain file folder rights issues on the remotes sometimes. Is it possible to run commands like...
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Karl Voit
karlvoit
Mar 4, 2011 8:39 am
computer A: unison version 2.32.52 Debian 6.0 computer B: unison version 2.32.52 grml (Debian older sid-based; unchanged for years) I am using A to sync...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 4, 2011 9:06 am
... You should first check the profile B.prf. I once had a similar problem because I had mistakenly "ignore permanently" the root path, which changed the...
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Pascal Bach
pascalatbach
Mar 4, 2011 9:06 am
Hi Karl can you send me the content of the B.prf profile file you are using? Probably there might be an option set that could cause the problem. Regards Pascal...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Mar 4, 2011 2:51 pm
You can also get back to a known state by telling Unison to ignore the archive files (-ignorearchives) and rebuild them from scratch. This should flag all the...
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Karl Voit
karlvoit
Mar 7, 2011 4:26 am
... Bingo! As far as I can reconstruct the problem, I got sick of the first entry of unison-gtk showing differences regarding the permissions of both root...
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Robin Bowes
robin_bowes
Mar 8, 2011 1:33 pm
Hi, I've got a 3-way synchronisation going on between my workstation, my NAS, and my Windows laptops. The NAS is mounted on the Linux workstation over NFS and...
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xopshed
Mar 8, 2011 1:35 pm
I've been using Unison for several years to sync my Macs. Recently, i've tried to sync with my (new) Windows machine to my Mac. I used the Windows GUI, and...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 8, 2011 1:36 pm
... This may be of interest: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/beta/unison-manual.html#fastcheck Hope this helps, Alan...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Mar 8, 2011 1:38 pm
... If you search for "resource fork" in the manual (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/beta/unison-manual.html), you'll find the...
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Robin Bowes
robin_bowes
Mar 8, 2011 11:06 pm
... Alan, Thanks. I'd already tried that and it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. I've got this in my Profile on the Windows machine: fastcheck = yes ...
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jeff.mclamb
Mar 10, 2011 12:30 am
I am having a very similar/the same issue as well. I have been happily using 2.40.61 for a while now, but recently one of my destinations started disconnecting...
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scottroberts1234
scottroberts...
Mar 10, 2011 8:19 pm
I'm using Unison version 2.40.1 on a MacBookPro Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) to synchonize with an itunes library on a Vista based PC. The synch was working fine...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Mar 10, 2011 10:51 pm
First step is to see if this still happens with the latest version of 2.40. If so, then it would help a lot if you can find a smallish example that exhibits...
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Lev Lafayette
lev_lafayette
Mar 11, 2011 4:52 am
Hi Unison people, I'm having issues with a source installation on a Linux cluster (Centos 5.5 64-bit) with environment modules. I've installed ocaml-3.12 and...
