\nThis post is tagged as backlogged, so the stuff I’m writing here isn’t exactly “new”. Anyway a few years ago (2) I became an owner of a 12″ laptop which was useful to take to class but needed to be constantly synced with my desktop.\n<\/p>\n
\nFortunately Gentoo had Unison<\/a> in its repository. This program works very well and presents a graphics merge window when conflicts arise. After searching for a Sync solution for a while, this is the best that I could find. Emerging unison on Gentoo gets you an executable with a version number to it. A quick<\/p>\n fixes that inconvenience.\n<\/p>\n Below is an example unison config in case anyone finds it useful. I saved the file as default.prf<\/b> in the unison directory. <\/p>\n Having done that, running<\/p>\n resulted in a purely automatic sync. To get the process as smooth as possible, you should add your ssh keys<\/a> to the respective machines. That way you won’t be asked for the password each time. Also, be sure to connect to the machine at least once before connecting with unison. If I remember correctly, it doesn’t present the “add this machine to know ssh hosts” dialog correctly. Possibly resulting in a silent failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post is tagged as backlogged, so the stuff I’m writing here isn’t exactly “new”. Anyway a few years ago (2) I became an owner of a 12″ laptop which was useful to take to class but needed to be …<\/p>\n\r\nln -s \/usr\/bin\/unison-2.27 \/usr\/bin\/unison\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# Unison preferences file\r\nroot = \/home\/cogent\r\nroot = ssh:\/\/Turm\r\n# Paths that I want to sync\r\n\r\npath = my_stuff\r\npath = school\r\npath = workspace\r\n#path = work\r\npath = .ssh\r\npath = .purple\r\npath = .gnupg\r\n#path = .thunderbird\r\npath = archive\/music\r\n\r\nignore = Name *~\r\nignore = Name .purple\/status.xml\r\nignore = Path .purple\/accels\r\nignore = Name .purple\/blist.xml\r\nignore = Name .purple\/prefs.xml\r\nignore = Name .purple\/accounts.xml\r\n\r\nlog = false\r\nheight = 40\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nunison default\r\n<\/pre>\n