Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 22 September 2014 22:49:41 PaulNM wrote:
> On 09/22/2014 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 22 September 2014 18:59:33 Joerg Desch wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Going purely by what you have written here:
> >
> > "It can copy locally to/from another host" etc.
> >
> > To ... one direction
> > From ...  the other direction
> >
> > Bidirectional.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Bidirectional copying, yes.  Not bidirectional syncing.
>
> Critical difference ... :)

Ah!  Thanks.

Lisi