Questions tagged [synchronization]
Use this tag when the topic is related to coordinating systems to have the same data or state or time. It can be part of redundancy.
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Email client with full EAS (exchange active sync) capability
I am in the process of finally switching my main machine over to Linux. One of the last items I am still urgently trying to solve is to find an email client that is capable of taking advantage of the ...
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unison start the sync from zero when I change the parent folder
I use unison to sync two folders that are in separate computers (via unison command with ssh). If for convenience I happen to change the name of the parent folder, unison start to sync the folders as ...
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Advice on Keeping Directories Synced Between Two Linux Laptops?
I need advice about syncing directories between two Linux laptops. Currently, I'm using Google Drive mounted with google-drive-ocamlfuse on both machines, but it's causing significant performance ...
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How to perform purely software based time synchronization using PTP?
My two machines do not support hardware timestamping:
ethtool -T eno1
Time stamping parameters for eno1:
Capabilities:
software-transmit
software-receive
software-system-clock
PTP Hardware ...
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sync hangs and cannot be killed
OS is Debian 12.
I copied some data to a usb drive, then ran the sync command to ensure I could remove it safely. The sync command then appeared to be stuck.
After waiting for half an hour, I tried ...
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Boot Delays on PowerPC Board with RTC Clock and hwclock --hctosys Command Related to Kernel Configurations
I am working on a PowerPC board using kernel version 4.1.35 and encountering significant boot delays, specifically around the RTC clock (ds-1337) operations. During the boot process, a script (hwclock....
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Help diagnose rclone beginner mistake
While starting to learn about rclone, I made the mistake of running the following command, as a test, from my Ubuntu home directory:
sudo rclone sync /media/foo/bar .
My assumption was that a new ...
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Preserving file extensions when renaming duplicate files with rsync
I have multiple directories whose contents overlap. Sometimes the files are exactly the same, sometimes the names are the same and the contents differ and sometimes files with the same name have ...
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On a fresh machine, which should come first the syncing of dotfiles or installation of their libraries?
This is a bit of a newbie question but I'm only starting out my journey with dotfiles!
Suppose I have a fresh machine and I want to sync my existing dotfiles/settings from some repo.
A dotfile may or ...
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Unison - Ignore Path, File, Name
I have unsion installed on two servers, server1.local and server2.local. The config file is stored on server1.local.
I can successfully sync the files between the two servers. However, I have a path ...
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How to sync contacts between a GNU Linux desktop and an Android smartphone?
I currently use Google Contacts to manage my contacts on Android and PC (web app). But I'm trying to get rid of Google for FOSS solutions (I already replaced Gmail and Google Agenda).
The first step ...
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RPM upgrade two servers with same packages on different days
I have two servers called test and prod and they have exactly the same packages installed.
On day 1 I dnf upgrade server test and then test if the installation vent good.
If the test vent good I do an ...
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PTP time syncing not working, why its always selecting best master clock as local clock?
I am trying to sync the time with PTP; I've configured the Trimble device with PTP. However, when I use LinuxPTP with the below configuration, the local clock is always selected as the best master ...
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chrony immediate time sync
Running RHEL-8.9 I have a handful+ servers in a computer lab, which do not have an internet connection and [currently] have no means of fetching any kind of stratum-0 type time. We therefore manually ...
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Bash frequently fails to redirect stdout to a file (from cat)
I commonly append to text files using cat:
cat >> FILE
I use an alias to avoid accidentally overwriting the file (with a single >):
alias a='cat >>'
Enter changes the line and Ctrl + ...
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