On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 01/11/2011 06:31 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > 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 As powerful as unison is, it is no longer maintained.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. > > Finding software to synchronize desktops that is powerful enough and > flexible enough to get synchronization done exactly the way you need it > while still allowing non-techies to use it is a real challenge. > Unison-gtk is the only (nearly) satisfactory FOSS solution I've found so > far. It has required considerable effort to train some of my more > hapless users to keep it from becoming a weapon of mass data destruction > in their hands. LOL > > As I understand it, unison-gtk is still being maintained but isn't being > developed. I think its maintainers still act on critical bugs and > security issues (if any are being reported) or it wouldn't still be in > the Squeeze repos. Yes - I should have been more specific. That is correct. > > <snip>>> We looked at Krusader and were very impressed but it appears to be a > >> simple copy rather than an rsync style differential block > >> synchronization. I took another look at Krusader. It is SO impressive but, we traced the packets during synchronization just hoping against hope and it is indeed a straight file transfer - no differentials. Really disappointed although I could see Krusader being overwhelming to some users. > >> > >> 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. > > <snip>>> > >> 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. > >> > > I'm glad you reported this. I'm going to start looking at it as my > alternative. I wonder if there will be any effort to get it into the > Debian repos. I'm trying to stick exclusively with the office > repositories these days. Same with us. We've got it set up now and released for testing. We'll see what the feedback is. > <snip>
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