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Unison Support?
I'd like to throw support for Unison (client & server) into the hat. It's cross platform, similar to rsync, but easier to use, and has plenty of F/OSS implementations. Unison might really make mirrori...
I checked with one of the Unison developers...although they may be working on other projects, they also use Unison on a daily basis, and things continue to get fixed. It's a good solution...if only I could get it to work with the ReadyNAS.
I tried it by mounting the ReadyNAS and running Unison in local mode, but since I'm running Mac OS X, I found:
1) Can't use SMB/CIFS, because resource forks and extended attributes are not supported
2) Can't use NFS, same reason
3) Can't use AFP, because there is a bug in the AFP implementation on the ReadyNAS that doesn't set permissions correctly in all cases.
The only way to use Unison right now from Mac OS X with a ReadyNAS is to set Unison to ignore permissions, and to run it locally with the ReadyNAS mounted as a network disk. Of course, if permissions matter to you, this could be an issue.
I tried it by mounting the ReadyNAS and running Unison in local mode, but since I'm running Mac OS X, I found:
1) Can't use SMB/CIFS, because resource forks and extended attributes are not supported
2) Can't use NFS, same reason
3) Can't use AFP, because there is a bug in the AFP implementation on the ReadyNAS that doesn't set permissions correctly in all cases.
The only way to use Unison right now from Mac OS X with a ReadyNAS is to set Unison to ignore permissions, and to run it locally with the ReadyNAS mounted as a network disk. Of course, if permissions matter to you, this could be an issue.
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