On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:37 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are looking for a Lenny/Squeeze package to synchronize > directories between our physical desktops and our X2Go (www.x2go.org) / > Trinity (KDE3 - trinity.pearsoncomputing.net) based virtual desktops via > sshfs and have had difficulty finding an acceptable package that is > friendly for all levels of users to use within a GUI. Any suggestions? > > We noticed that there is a package for unison-gtk but have some > reservations. As powerful as unison is, it is no longer maintained. > The GUI seemed intuitive to a developer but not to an average office > user. There was no way to browse hidden directories other than entering > them by hand. So our search began especially for something that would > work well on KDE3/Trinity. > > We looked at Krusader and were very impressed but it appears to be a > simple copy rather than an rsync style differential block > synchronization. > > We look at Komparator but it is KDE4 based, has a UI that seems > overwhelming to an average office user, and seems more oriented toward > search and compare than sync. > > We had great hopes for FreeFileSync but it seemed feature poor and the > user interface was unusable. We may have mangled the setup since there > is no Debian package and we had to pull in boost and wxwidgets to get it > to compile and work at all. > > We are considering DirSyncPro. Again, there is no Debian package. It > is Java based which concerns us regarding memory and CPU consumption > when we are trying to squeeze as many virtual desktops onto a host as > possible. It does seem to be fairly full featured and actively > developed. Our packet traces show it does appear to do block level > synchronization. > > Right now our front runner is DirSyncPro followed by crafting Konqueror > service menus based upon unison. We like the ease of use of the latter > idea but think it will be too "dumb" and brings us back to unison being > unmaintained. > > Have we missed any options? I should mention that the synchronization is > usually bi-directional so a simple rsync front end is not a good option. > Thanks - John > > > I should mention that DirSyncPro does not have a way of displaying hidden directories either - John
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