#UNISON SYNCH INSTALL#

#UNISON SYNCH INSTALL#

To install unison in Debian/Ubuntu systems simply issue the following command: For this reason, it is convenient to have access through a private ssh key between the computers, to avoid having to enter the password each time that the computers are synchronized. In other words, it uses a ssh connection between the computers to perform the transmission of data, and so it uses a secure connection.

The synchronization is done over the so called ssh tunnel. I have used this system to keep a tablet and the laptop synchronized with the office computer. In principle, more than one computer could be kept synchronized, choosing in this case a reference computer and synchronizing the other computers against this one. In this way, when I have to work at home I have to simply synchronize the laptop, and when I finish working at home I have to synchronize again so that my office computer is updated with the work I did at home. It may have different applications, In my case, I use it to keep the computer that I have at home (and on the move, since it is a laptop) synchronized with the computer that I have in my office, which is a desktop computer. If there are conflicts, for instance if a file has been modified in different ways in each of the replicas, unison will allow to reconcile the conflict, choosing one of the two versions over the other one. For instance if a file is deleted in one of the two replicas, it will be also deleted in the other one, since the diea is to maintain the two copies synchronized. It can also be done between different platforms, for instance between a Linux computer and another computer with a different operating system, since it is a multi-platform program which is available for the best known operating systems.ДЄn important point to understand is that it is not a backup tool. Unison is a tool to synchronize files and directories between different systems or within the same system.

Unison synch