Wednesday, November 21, 2012

File Synchronization over Network using Unison

Unison is great tool for synchronizing files over network. Earlier I used rsync for file-synchronization. Unison at least provides one level of comfort over rsync which requires quite a bit of customization. If you want to use Unison to synchronize files between two systems over a network, then please refer to the following links:

http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-unison-file-synchronization-between-two-servers-on-ubuntu-11.10

This worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit version and I managed to do everything mentioned on this page. One more thing, you don't need to use the root login for executing the steps.

If you need to delete the several profiles already created on Unison, you should go to ~/.unison folder and delete the corresponding .prf files. It is not possible to delete profiles using GUI.

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