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Unison was the first thing I tried after moving away from DropBox. The main problem I had with it was that both machines involved in the syncing had to be runni

by smackay 12y ago

Unison was the first thing I tried after moving away from DropBox. The main problem I had with it was that both machines involved in the syncing had to be running which made moving from laptop to desktop not as seamless as I would have liked. Still the syncing process was flawless. I had better results using Seafile, http://seafile.com/en/home/ http://seafile.com/en/home/, their free account was sufficient for my needs and worked great. You can self-host if you are worried about keeping control of your files.

Already__Taken 12y ago
You'll have that problem with anything you don't run yourself so that seems like an unfair complaint. Can't this sync desktop <-> server and laptop <> server?
- moe 12y ago
  I ran unison for a while but the conflict resolution was unfortunately lacking. It repeatedly stopped sync'ing properly until I intervened manually. A few months ago I switched to csync[1], which looks better so far. [1] https://www.csync.org/ https://www.csync.org/
  - a3_nm 12y ago
    The last csync release is from August 2013. Is the project still alive?
    - moe 12y ago
      I don't know. It simply works for me ever since I installed it (on linux and OSX) so I never bothered to check for updates.
a3_nm 12y ago
In Seafile the server doesn't notify changes to clients, instead the clients poll every 30 seconds, which means that changes are synced with a 30 second delay (and presumably bandwidth is wasted). See https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/992 https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/992. I'm not a fan of Dropbox but at least the lag is only a few seconds, which I think is because the clients notice changes with inotify and send them to the server, and the server probably pushes updates to the clients. I haven't tried to use it seriously, but seeing that it doesn't do this right discourages me a bit from testing it further.

by smackay 12y ago

Already__Taken 12y ago

You'll have that problem with anything you don't run yourself so that seems like an unfair complaint. Can't this sync desktop <-> server and laptop <> server?

moe 12y ago
I ran unison for a while but the conflict resolution was unfortunately lacking. It repeatedly stopped sync'ing properly until I intervened manually. A few months ago I switched to csync[1], which looks better so far. [1] https://www.csync.org/ https://www.csync.org/
- a3_nm 12y ago
  The last csync release is from August 2013. Is the project still alive?
  - moe 12y ago
    I don't know. It simply works for me ever since I installed it (on linux and OSX) so I never bothered to check for updates.

a3_nm 12y ago

In Seafile the server doesn't notify changes to clients, instead the clients poll every 30 seconds, which means that changes are synced with a 30 second delay (and presumably bandwidth is wasted). See https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/992 https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/992. I'm not a fan of Dropbox but at least the lag is only a few seconds, which I think is because the clients notice changes with inotify and send them to the server, and the server probably pushes updates to the clients. I haven't tried to use it seriously, but seeing that it doesn't do this right discourages me a bit from testing it further.