Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 17:59:33 schrieb Joerg Desch:
> Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:45:23 +0200 schrieb Hans:
> >> Unison doesn't use rsync. As far as I know, Unison uses a rsync alike
> >> algorithm which is bidirectional, while rsync is only unidirectional.
> > 
> > Nope, rsync is bidirectional, too.
> 
> Are you shure? I'm only aware of the unidirectional sync. The man page
> tells me this as description:
> 
> Rsync  is  a  fast  and  extraordinarily versatile file copying tool.  It
> can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from
> a remote rsync daemon.
> 
> Which option enables bidirectional syncing? How are conflicts handled? I
> could find the infos in the man page.

Maybe I am wrong with the term "bidirectional", but you can tell rsync which 
way to syncronise. Say there are two computers, Adam and Eve, and you are 
sitting at Adam.

You can say 

rsync -a Adam-IP/Folder  Eve-IP/Folder
or
rsync -a Eve-IP/Folder /Adam-IP/Folder

The first one is always source, the second target.

However, maybe I did misunderstood the term bidirectional!

Hans