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Unison over SSH

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by

Rob Muggridge
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Configuring Unison to communicate over SSH

Using Windows to Unix via SSH

To start with you will need the same version of Unison installed on both machines. Run the following command to check your Unix version:

unison -version

First, download http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe for Windows from the PuTTY download site.
In the same directory create batch file called unison-ssh.bat, with the following contents:

@echo off
set PLINKEXE=
set USERNAME=
set PPK=
set HOSTNAME=
%PLINKEXE% -ssh -P 22 -2 -l %USERNAME% -i %PPK% %HOSTNAME% unison -server

Now edit the Unison profile to point to the SSH server and also to include the {{sshcmd}} pointing to the new batch file

root = 
root = ssh://@/
...
sshcmd =

And that’s it…