Subject: Open Source tool synchronizes office systems
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 14:49:17 AKST
UNISON, open source from the University of Pennsylvania:
http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_53/synch/synch.htm
What constitutes a difference between two file repositories? How
does a synchronizer resolve these differences? What happens if files are
deleted or renamed? What happens if a system crashes in the midst of an
update?
All of these issues must be dealt with by providing both a reasonable
solution and the opportunity for the user to override that solution.
... the University of Pennsylvania?s Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science (IRCS).
... an Open Source file synchronization tool called Unison for Linux,
Windows, and Unix. For Mac OSX devotees ... Unison does not yet handle
file resource forks correctly.
Unison is a pure user-level tool-no pseudo drivers, no kernel hacks, no
elevated superuser privileges, ... users with laptops running either
Windows XP or Linux can synchronize their files with replicas residing
on a file server running Windows 2000, Linux, or Unix.
... Unison leaves both the file repositories that are being
synchronized and Unison?s own private files, which are kept in a special
.unison decretory, in a sensible state at all times in order to ease
recovery in case of abnormal termination or communication failure.
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