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On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: |
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>>> What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It |
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>>> would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already |
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>>> clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order |
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>> net-misc/unison |
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> I use unison to emulate Windows's "offline files" feature for several |
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> subdirectories in ~, and I can say it works really well. It took me quite |
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> some time to understand all of its options, and it has some very strange |
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> behavioral quirks which are easily worked around, but I like the what I |
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> ended up with. I currently have it set up to automatically synchronize a |
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> couple of locations on my notebook with a share on my file server about |
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> every five minutes. If the server is unavailable (i.e. I am not at home), it |
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> exits silently, but will try again at the next scheduled time. In the event |
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> of file conflicts (i.e. I changed the same file on the server and on the |
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> notebook between syncs), it sends me an email listing the conflicting |
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> filenames, and I can look into it later. |
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> -- |
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> ♫Dustin |
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Unison is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Neil and Dustin. |
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Randy |
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