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Star topology in Unison with selective bidirectional syncs?

Let's say I have a server where I'd like to keep my central Unison repository, and I have two machines with directories Documents and .config on each. I'd like to synchronise Documents and .config to server but only Documents should be synchronised between both client machines. So there should be three directories on the server, Documents, .config_machine1, .config_machine2, where Documents is common between the two client machines, and each .config is specific two each client machine. Is this possible with unison?

Solution

  • You could run two different Unison profiles on each machine. So on your server, you would have your files look something like

    Unison
 \_Common
 |  \_Documents
 \_Machine1
 |  \_.config
 \_Machine2
    \_.config

    and then on each machine you would have two different Unison profiles, common.prf to sync the Documents folder, and specific.prf to sync that machine's .config folder.