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.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This beta release introduces three major new features: much faster update detection on Windows, local archiving of old versions of files, and file-level merging in case of conflicts, using an external merge program of the user's choice (ediff, vdiff, etc.).

Author:
Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce (at) cis (dot) upenn (dot) edu> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.64/10.00 (38 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 09:44
2.13.16	Minor feature enhancements	15-Mar-2006 19:20
2.10.2	N/A	15-Mar-2006 19:17
2.9.1	Major feature enhancements	17-Apr-2002 16:16
2.7.7	Minor bugfixes	16-Sep-2001 16:21
2.7.1	Major feature enhancements	11-Sep-2001 10:47
2.6.59	Major feature enhancements	07-Jul-2001 14:21
2.6.38	Minor feature enhancements	06-Mar-2001 23:39
2.6.11	N/A	24-Jan-2001 14:48
2.6.1	N/A	10-Nov-2000 13:51

 Articles referencing this project

• Without A Net
  by jeff covey , in Editorials
  Sat, May 31st 2008 00:00
  

 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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