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