Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Issue is resolved (solution below) An unstable link is probably triggering your issue. If the link dies and comes back, unison (at least version 2.27.57, what I have here) gets confused and just sits there. What's interesting is that if unison is killed on the initiating machine, the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
How long is unison taking to check for changes? I can usually reconcile changes in my home directory (approximately 45G, 125,000 files) in less than 10-15 seconds between my slow laptop drive and a remote machine. However, if you are syncing with a Windows machine, expect the sync to be much

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5976 http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/ http://www.google.com/search?q=homedir+version+control Hey thanks Stroller, I'd be interested in these solutions, but i dont have enough space to copy everything in double (keep a backup). So what i do, and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 10:32 -0400, Simon wrote: How long is unison taking to check for changes? I can usually reconcile changes in my home directory (approximately 45G, 125,000 files) in less than 10-15 seconds between my slow laptop drive and a remote machine. However, if you are syncing

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 02 May 2009 23:33:38 Simon wrote: hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 17:33 -0400, Simon wrote: hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
If you are using ssh with unison, are you using the KeepAlive yes option in your ssh configuration? If not, add it, and your connection should not close from inactivity. If you are using direct sockets, unison will use a keepalive so it can timeout if the communication link is broken. Well i

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2009, at 22:33, Simon wrote: ... I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing it will be