Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi to all Debian users.
I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I
need now is:
1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two;
2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home
directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that really
changed were copied, so to save useless time.
Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two
machines together.
Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and
destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba
file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way.
From what you say, I doubt that you are.
If you are not, and don't want the complication of Samba or NFS, then
you will need to learn some of the complication of rsync, which is the
command-line program which is used by Unison. It is very versatile, but
you will need only the most basic functions, and you will need to
arrange a means of transfer between the machines. SSH is much simpler to
organise than Samba, and is the preferred means anyway, and you may find
one or other of the installations already has the SSH daemon running. If
not, it's easy to organise with Debian.
--
Joe
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