as soon as one changes, the other one is updated (if on of course.) I settled on Syncthing. The reason was that I wanted to have real time synchronisation between the two computers i.e. For example, I like to run Unison every afternoon when I get back home after one day of work. the synchronisation only happens when initiated by the user. One important of Unison is that one has to run it manually i.e. Anyway, Unison is a tool which does two-way synchronisation between computers and every time there is an inconsistency (a new file, a deleted file, a change, etc.) ask the user to manually choose on the action to make. Since the very beginning, I needed to have a proper file synchronisation process for these two computers and cloud solutions such as Google Drive or Dropbox were not options as I had many many Gigabytes to synchronise and this would have been very expensive to be done online.įor 1-2 years, I used Unison, a file synchronisation utility written by one of my Computer Science heroes, Benjamin Pierce, author of the quite renowned book “Types and Programming Languages” which, I have to confess, I have not yet read because, well, I never had the chance to stumble upon it. At home, I also tend to work on an Apple iMac (still) running macOS El Capitan (which I intend to upgrade to High Sierra soon - unfortunately, Apple has decided that this iMac cannot run Mojave). I generally work on my laptop, an old Dell Inspiron 15 still running Fedora Linux 29 quite well.
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