{"id":1000144,"date":"2006-09-07T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/09\/07\/chronosync-final-answer\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T23:31:03","slug":"chronosync-final-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/math\/2006\/09\/07\/chronosync-final-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronosync: Final Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/07\/18\/syncing-powerbooks\/\">evaluating Chronosync for a month<\/a>, the evaluation period is up and it&#8217;s time to make a decision. To buy or not to buy, that is the question. I think the answer is no. Chronosync is <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.elharo.com\/ui\/interaction-blooper-1-waiting-for-the-user\/\">too<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.elharo.com\/optimization\/how-to-write-network-backup-software-a-lesson-in-practical-optimization\/\">slow<\/a> and too complex to justify paying for.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The complexity is the real killer. Although it claims to do bidirectional sync, I&#8217;ve never felt comfortable letting it do that. There just seems like far too much risk that I&#8217;ll accidentally nuke a file or folder because I haven&#8217;t set up Chronosync quite right. Software like this needs to be simple enough to understand and use without worry. Chronosync just isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>There were some good suggestions for alternative in the comments on the last post. I plan to try Unison and FileSynchronization. Perhaps one of them will get the job done. However, I think there&#8217;s a real market opportunity here for a product that&#8217;s got the right combination of speed, ease of use, and reliability. So far I don&#8217;t think such a product exists. :-(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After evaluating Chronosync for a month, the evaluation period is up and it&#8217;s time to make a decision. To buy or not to buy, that is the question. I think the answer is no. Chronosync is too slow and too complex to justify paying for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}