On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > the four PC systems in my household. > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you move a > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the new > location has the same hash as the file at the old location. As a result, it > does not transmit the file anew to the remote host, but instead copies it > locally on the remote host. > > Since Unison uses ssh underneath, you can use ssh’s transparent compression > to speed up the transfer.
I’ve been thinking about using it to synchronise dovecot maildir folders, since dsync is now deprecated. But I’m not sure about it as I never used it under “heavy” loads. Do you have any thoughts about it? -- Alarig
