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Unison is a bidirectional, conflict detecting file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

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I have two linux computers: personal (arch, full root access) workplace (ubuntu, no root access). I am using "Unison" to sync some selected directories from one computer to an ext4 USB ...
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I use unison to sync two folders that are in separate computers (via unison command with ssh). If for convenience I happen to change the name of the parent folder, unison start to sync the folders as ...
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I have a setup in which I sync files between two Linux servers using Unison over an SSH connection. This is implemented by running the following command via cron: unison -auto -batch PROFILE Changes ...
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I want to create a sync system between newly available Proton Drive and my local filesystem. However, since it's very new, it's only barely supported by rclone (I'm lucky to be on openSUSE Tumbleweed ...
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I have unison running under systemd to keep my local and remote NASs in sync. The systemd config is thus: [Unit] Description=NAS Unision service After=network.target StartLimitIntervalSec=0 [Service] ...
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When I merge two folders with rsync, if files of the same name exist in the "target" directory, those will be kept unconditionally. I can use unison which is a bit more advanced, but as far ...
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[ EDIT: Answered my own question. Used unison and some hacky post-processing ( copy-pasted the log output of unison, tweaked it in my text-editor with multi-selection editing, then did some shell ...
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I'd like to use Unison to sync a directory between my desktop computer and a container that lives in the cloud. I have this kind of working with Unison, but the problem I'm seeing is that every time I ...
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I have just rebuilt my file server after it suffered disk corruption. When I tried to re-sync data using Unison, I got the error message Lost connection with the server I retried from the command ...
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I am syncing two machines using Unison: root = /home/luserface root = ssh://192.168.1.168/ I have a subdirectory "Foo" under that home, and it's a symbolic link. I have follow = Path Foo ...
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For over a decade now I have been working in a full Debian environment in my small office (currently 1 server, 7 users, 3 desktops, 4 laptops). Authentication is based on Kerberos, user profiles are ...
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unison-jz works well on a bash command-line but not inside a script. It seems that inside the script, it falls back to the regular unison command. Can someone tell me how to use unison-jz inside a ...
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I want to synchronize two computers that are similar and update just a few files. Therefore I would like to perform a Unison and ignore everything except a list of files in different paths. Something ...
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I originally posted on SO but i realized this might be more suited here. I'm using unison on Linux (Manjaro) to keep some files synced between two local folders but I'm running into a problem. I have ...
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I have a file server running Raspbian 9, and use Unison over SSH to sync my home dir between these two. This has worked well for the two years I was on Ubuntu 18.04, but after upgrading to Ubuntu 20....
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