Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync for file synchronization?

[William L. <wr...@gm...>]

On 9/1/06, Alan Schmitt <ala...@po...> wrote:
> On 28 ao=FBt 06, at 04:35, William Lachance wrote:
>
> > Thus far, I've been taking the approach of making it call
> > Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) via pexpect, but
> > I've gotten a bit frustrated with some of its limitations. My most
> > recent irk is that it doesn't allow you to synchronize a folder with
> > another machine unless all the parent folders also exist on such a
> > machine.
>
> I synchronize unrelated folders very often. There are at least two
> ways to do it:
> - have several profiles, each one with the root you're interested in
> synchronizing
> - have symbolic links to the directories you want to synchronize and
> use the "follow" directive

Ah, thanks. The former solution is pretty clever. I'd still be
interested in trying to use OpenSync for this though, not the least
because any work done there might benefit a larger group of people.

Cheers,
--=20
William Lachance
wr...@gm...