I wonder about Windows 7 compatibility. You might send an email to the
developer and ask.

As regards speed, it is definitely slower than a straight copy the first
time.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

c.marcano@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Bob.
> 
> I have been playing with Unison and it definitly looks promising. I have had, though, a few quirks with it:
> 
> - It seems to me it is pretty slow. I know it might need a settling time for the first scannings but the "propagation" (as it calls the copying, I think) seems to be painfully slow.
> 
> - I had a crash of the client application, caused by the sudden and unexpected stop of the server.
> 
> My setup: two computers on a LAN, main uses Windows 7 and backup uses Windows XP. I started the unison.windows32.textui program as a server on the XP machine, adding the option             -socket 5432 in the cmd console. Then, I run the unison.win32.gtkui client on the Windows 7 box and config it to connect to the 192.168.0.111:5432 server (the XP box) and to sync from the W7 disc E to the XP disc E. Everything starts fine but after around 1 hour and after the "propagation" of 15 GB out of a total of 65 GB, the two previous problems arise.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Carlos. 
> ------Mensaje original------
> De: Bob Blick
> Remitente:piclist-bounces@mit.edu
> Para:Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Responder a:Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Asunto: Re: [OT] [TECH] Alternative to backup software.
> Enviado: 2 Sep, 2009 21:39
> 
> rsync is great in *nix but in Windows it's a pain to set up if you don't
> already have a Cygwin environment in place. Been there, done that,
> switched to Unison when I needed to do it last time, haven't looked back :)
> 
> Also, twice a year rsync in Windows would insist all my files had
> changed and copy all of them. It coincided with the Daylight Savings
> Time change, and nothing I did ever fixed it.
> 
> Cheerful regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> M.L. wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Carlos Marcano<c.marcano@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Before dipping into a propietary or open source application for
>>> backing up, I think I would like to keep using my system but I think I
>>> need a software which coul be used to compare the content of both hard
>>> drives (the local and the networked backup) and tell me if there is
>>> any file missing in the backup. This should run on Windows. Does
>>> anything like that exists?
>> rsync was designed for exactly this purpose.
>>
>> man rsync
>> rsync -av source destination
>>
>> -
>> Martin
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