Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:08:03AM +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay: > 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?
Among the many files I sync is my Mail folder. It currently contains around 106k files. My music collection is another 50k files. If there are no changes and I did a recent run, then another run to look for changes takes only very few seconds. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. A computer only crashes if your haven’t saved your text for a long time.
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