About:
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two copies of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison can deal with updates to both replicas of a distributed directory structure. Updates that do not conflict are propagated automatically. Conflicting updates are detected and displayed. Unison can communicate through a direct socket link or through an rsh/ssh tunnel. It uses network bandwidth efficiently.

Author:
Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce __at__ cis __dot__ upenn __dot__ edu> [contact developer]

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8.63/10.00 (37 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download.html
Changelog:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-announce/message/51

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, POSIX, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		ML
[Topic]		Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), System :: Archiving, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, System :: Filesystems, System :: Networking, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.27.57	14-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.27.57	Minor feature enhancements	14-Mar-2008 01:44
2.13.16	Minor feature enhancements	15-Mar-2006 11:20
2.10.2	N/A	15-Mar-2006 11:17
2.9.1	Major feature enhancements	17-Apr-2002 09:16
2.7.7	Minor bugfixes	16-Sep-2001 09:21
2.7.1	Major feature enhancements	11-Sep-2001 03:47
2.6.59	Major feature enhancements	07-Jul-2001 07:21
2.6.38	Minor feature enhancements	06-Mar-2001 15:39
2.6.11	N/A	24-Jan-2001 06:48
2.6.1	N/A	10-Nov-2000 05:51

 Comments

[»] Excellent file synchronizer
by Floyd - Feb 7th 2005 12:23:17

This tool was written by the guys at CERN, the european particle physics laboratry. Obviously they know what they are doing, this software performs simply without flaw.

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[»] Extremly useful
by Mela Eckenfels - Oct 18th 2004 09:31:29

If you have to share data between two or more
computers, and want to keep it it _in sync_ you can't step
over unison.

I'm using it now for over a year to sync data between my
notebook and my Workplace-PC and it grows to one of my
most important tools. in one row with ssh, a mailreader,
vi and bash itself...

Keep up the good work!

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