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SparkleShare 1.0 releasedSparkleShare 1.0 releasedPosted Dec 20, 2012 14:09 UTC (Thu) by Velmont (guest, #46433)Parent article: SparkleShare 1.0 released
Every Sparkleshare article needs a "that's nice, but people should really take a look at Unison if you want to sync files between computers" comment (I've done most of them on LWN).
So here it is :-)
Unison is much more flexible, and actually made for that purpose. Using git as backend adds a few problems that Unison doesn't have.
"Share" is the important part of SparkleShare, it's more for "many people using the same files", than for moving your own files onto 10 computers and have it all synced up to your main server at all times. So I guess you could quickly use both.
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Unison Posted Dec 20, 2012 17:11 UTC (Thu) by jch (guest, #51929) [Link]
> people should really take a look at Unison
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> Unison is much more flexible, and actually made for that purpose.
Yep. Unison supports arbitrary peer-to-peer synchronisation rather than just the client-server model, which is really nice when the server is down, or when the clients are connected by a fast Ethernet that's behind a slow ADSL. Or when you don't want to setup a server in the first place.
The issue with Unison, however, is that it's an interactive tool rather than a daemon -- having your hosts synchronise automatically requires setting up a cron job. Many people prefer the automated setup of the commercial tools
--jch
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