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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers rsync v. unison Post 302079716 by siegfried on Wednesday 12th of July 2006 12:07:45 PM
Old 07-12-2006
rsync v. unison
I was reading the man page for rsync expecting it to talk about synchronization. It says it is like a rcp. I was expecting it to have something to do with synchronization.

I was expecting rsync to only copy those files that are newer and it does not look like this is what it was designed to do. I'm feeling confused. Why is it called rsync?

Is unison the program I want?

I've been reading the man page for unison too and I'm wondering why the cygwin installation program gave me the option to install multiple versions of unison instead of only the latest version. I see unision2.10.2, unision 2.12.0, unision 2.13 and unision 2.17. Do I care about the older versions?

How do I invoke the GUI interface for unison? I'm running cygwin on Win2K3 server. It says to double click on the icon but I cannot find the icon except thru windows explorer and that does not know about the cygwin dll. (hmmm... I think I'll post this question in the cygwin mailing list since it might be cygwin specific).

Thanks,
Siegfried
 

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