In case I haven’t forgotten to write anything down, I think that’s all I have to say, i.e.
The Mac devices (old Macbook, new Macbook, Mac Mini) are often in sleep mode, I guess the Raspberry Pi on my network is always-on, though. In the very most cases the three Mac devices are not used at the same moment in time.Ī: Not really. Q: Are the devices used at the same time?Ī: Generally, I’d like to say no. I think this is one of the main differences of Syncthing and Unison, that Unison needs to be “started” manually after making changes to files, and Syncthing just runs in the background and as soon as something is changed, the changes are propagated to all other devices? auto-starting, the check/sync for example every hour. Q: Is real-time synchronization necessary?Ī: Not really it would be okay to be automating, i.e. Now a few things - make sure you set the paths to the correct paths you want to sync between machines. Unison works a bit like rsync in that although initial sync may take a long time afterwards only differences are transfered. I have been using Unison for over seven years and it’s great. The outcome of changing the name of a file on the destination box depends on how you setup unison. Currently I use Unison over SSH to sync my documents and some specific system files. If you change the name of a file on the source box unison will delete the old file and re-transfer the 'new' file. BSD and GNU/Linux), macOS and Windows, with the caveat that the platform must be. We’re having three Mac devices in our network, as well as optionally a Raspberry Pi with optionally some storage attached that could serve as network storage (SSHFS, NFS, AFP, et cetera) and serve files between the Mac devices also an Apple Time Capsule with 2 TB storage would be available. I believe Unison works like rsync (as it uses rsync code) and therefore does not pick renamed files. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. Q: How many and which devices are in use?Ī: Three, at least.
everything should, if possible, work without any internet connection whatsoever. I am facing irritating errors while using Unison in Ubuntu to do file synchronisation to my USB backup drive - and apparently I am not alone, see: Bug 118283 in Ubuntu: cant easily use unison-gtk to sync a local folder to my VFAT USB drive. LAN-only preferred, no online/cloud, i.e. I’m a little stuck in thinking everything through until the end, so maybe I could ask some of you for your advice and/or opinion.Ī: Synchronized folders and files as well as symlinks.
I’m new to Syncthing and Unison, and I just read the project overviews and FAQs as well as most of both documentations.