On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:26:37AM +0000, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > notebook and desktop (at home and at work). Any good recommendation? > > syrep is too limited, unison seems to be the exact tool that I'm looking > for, just I want to avoid its dependency (OCaml) if possible. I have used unison for quite a while for this purpose and although it does what it claims, I find it doesn't really suit my needs. First, it is slow (or seems so to me), it does seem to fail randomly on some files, and I don't like it's conflict resolution interface. But the real reason I'm not liking it now, after about two years of using it to sync my desktop and my laptop, is that I don't think it will work well for adding additional machines. But all of these reasons to not use unison are mostly personal to me. It definitely suited my needs quite well for quite a while. I'm planning to move to keeping all of /home in git and giving that a try. You might want to read: http://joey.kitenet.net/svnhome/ and the various links from there. A
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