Re: More: Re: Synchronizing unison files

Thanks Tõivo, that works fine.

Very best,

     John

Le 14/02/2024 à 10:51, Tõivo Leedjärv a écrit :
> The following should work:
> /ignore = Name .unison/
> /
> /
> But more accurate would be:
> /ignore = Path .unison/
> /
> /
> The difference between these two is that the first form matches the 
> name ".unison" /anywhere/ in the dir tree, not just under the root. 
> The second form matches the entire path under the root. In this case, 
> it will only match /home/john/.unison and 
> /media/john/ASUS-john/.unison but not, for example, 
> /home/john/something_else/.unison (whereas the first form would match 
> this).
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 10:26, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>     -------- Message transféré --------
>     Sujet : 	Re: [unison-users] Synchronizing unison files
>     Date : 	Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:32:56 +0100
>     De : 	John Rose <[email protected]> <mailto:[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]> <mailto:[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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