More: Re: Synchronizing unison files

But when I change my prf file as follows:

    /# Unison preferences
    root = /home/john
    root = /media/john/ASUS-john
    ignore = Name {Dossier ~/.unison}/

unison still tries to transfer the files inside and gives an error (with 
or without the "/~/")/. Maybe I need a parameter or regular expression 
to ignore the hidden directory?

Thanks and best regards,
     John

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Sujet : 	Re: [unison-users] Synchronizing unison files
Date : 	Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:32:56 +0100
De : 	John Rose <[email protected]>
Pour : 	[email protected]



Thanks for this, Greg,

Previously I was using grsync for backups and unison for syncs, then I 
stopped syncs because moved to a single computer but chose to keep 
unison because of its clear and user-friendly interface, and the 
facility to easily ignore certain elements. The lack of priority to 
reduce inter-version incompatibility of unison is still incomprehensible 
for me, but I have learned to live with it and will now use it to sync 
two nearly identical computers (with big screen for desk us and small 
for travel). For a small-scale application like mine, much better to 
have only one package to worry about. I will exclude ~/.unison as you 
suggest.

Best regards,

     John

Le 13/02/2024 à 15:19, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> John Rose <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I am synchronizing my Ubuntu home directory to an external SSD and (I
>> guess quite naturally) cannot synchronize unison archive files for the
>> active directory or the unison log file because they change during
>> synchronization. I could ignore the files in the prf (I guess I would
>> need a regular expression for the relevant archives files?) but this
>> would not change anything. Is there any way around this? else I can
>> easily live with it.
> I don't synchronize my homedir, or NFS mount it, because different
> machines need different content, are different OS, etc. Instead I have
> shared/foo for various foo and synchronize them (varying destinations).
> So that would work. But here, I am guessing that you are likely
> doing backup rather than "drive the ssd to work and sync it to your
> homedir there", it not being the 90s any more.
>
> unison more or less expects ~/.unison not to be synced. I would suggest
> that you either:
>
> simply exclude ~/.unison
>
> put the contents of ~/.unison someplace outside your homedir and
> symlink it in (not tested, might misbehave because of something I
> don't understand). back it up separately
>
> exclude the log and the ar/fp files that are for this particular sync,
> if they point is to back up including backing up the ar/fp used to
> sync other things to other places
>
> if what you are doing is making backups, use a backup tool instead of
> a sync tool, partly because you want history to recover later from
> undetected loss. Personally I use bup.
>
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