![]() On some systems you will have a Unison Icon, on some linux systems you may need to type unison-gtk or similar. Start the GUI interface to Unison on your laptop. ![]() Otherwise follow the link above, download the same version as you have on your laptop, compile it and place the unison binary in your Maths home directory's bin directory calling it unison (not unison-number) If you cannot find a match contact letting them know which version you need. If your laptop is running the same version of Ubuntu as the Maths desktops, you need not install Unison in your Maths home directory as it is already installed centrally. The examples on this page use the graphical versions. Systems like Ubuntu will, or you can download a binary version or build your own version from source. To install Unison on your laptop check to see if your operating system already has a Unison package. The same version of Unison needs to be installed both on your laptop and in your Maths home directory. While people running windows on their laptops are welcome to use unison, we recommend that they use WinSCP instead. This document describes how to use Unison to sync files between your department home directory and your Laptop for Linux and MacOSX. Unison can be very useful if you work on different computers on a regular basis maybe work and college or work and home. If you had edited a file in both locations, Unison would notice this and flag this for your attention, so that you can decide what to do. Unison would sync both the laptop directory and the departmental one so that both contained the most up to date copy of all the files. If you had used Unison to do the copying you wouldn't have this issue. You will need to go through both systems picking out the newest copy of each file and watching out for any files you changed in both locations. Then one day you remember you edited some files while you were away but you now cannot remember which files you edited on holiday on your laptop and which since returning on the departmental system. While on holiday you do some project work as planned When you return to your office in CMS you continue with your project, but with the files you have in the data space. You copy your project directory onto your laptop. ![]() You are going away and will be working on your project while on the beach without internet access. All files and directories related to this are in a directory in one of the departmental data spaces. Synchronising data between computers/system using Unison for Linux/OSX Introduction: What is Unison and why would I use it ![]()
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