Install unison¶

Requirements¶

To install unison you will need the following:

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 6.x)
• root-access
• epel repository
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary note¶

most of this is taken from

• [[http://www.chenit.com.au/blog/set-up-unison-for-two-way-syncing-on-2-centos-servers]]
• [[http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unison-file-synchronizer-tool/]]
  you may consult the official homepage
• [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison]]

Install¶

yum install unison

alternatively the gui-version

yum install unison240-gtk

Usage¶

Basic usage:

unison /mnt/dat /media/ext_HDD

if there is some Microsoft-Filesystem involved you maybe won't sync the file-permissions

unison /mnt/dat /media/ext_HDD -perms 0