[ncolug] Re: Unison for File Sync NTFS and Ext3 (with a little Samba for fun)
- From: <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:39:02 -0500
Nice! I bet this sort of Unison configuration will address the rsync error I
was getting months back that had the same sort of underlying cause...
Hurray for Unison!
Thanks, Mike! We look forward to your presentation!!! lol
Chuck
---- "M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, I've run into this issue about a half dozen times, but it's always been
> several months apart so I never really documented the solution. It's oh so
> much easier to Google for it... Unfortunately, the blog that I would always
> find that had the solution had since died, and the looking back though the
> WayBackMachine for a cached version is just a little to much work. So...
> Here goes creating a new post for Google to cache!
>
> Here's the setup:
>
> I have a TrueCrypt volume formatted as NTFS that I keep a bunch of Junk in
> on each of my laptops/desktops/home server/etc. I use Unison to keep this
> volume synced between all my machines, so I always have the most recent
> version of whatever file on each of my machines. This setup works GREAT
> when syncing inside the NTFS volume!
>
> Here's the issue:
>
> I need to sync one of the folders in this volume to a another system. This
> system is available to me via a samba share an the underlying volume is
> ext3. Whenever I try to have Unison sync, I get a permissions error because
> it's unable to replicate the owner and permissions given the file system
> differences.
>
> Here's the fix:
>
> When using Unison-GTK, a GUI interface to Unison, it creates a file in your
> ~/.unison/ directory. That file looks a lot like this: (assuming your local
> directory is /compA/folder and you've mounted your Samba share as
> /Samba_Share/)
>
> #####
> root = /compA/folder
> root = /Samba_Share/folder
>
> Yeah, exciting... I know. So, to this file, add the following:
>
> owner=false
> perms=0
>
> This will ignore syncing the owner and permissions and allow them to
> default. Are there better ways to fix this that will make sure this vital
> information is syncronized? Sure, but I just don't care for my needs. Yes,
> it's a little self serving... perhaps this could be a topic for a future
> NCOLUG meeting?!!?
>
> Mike K.
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