On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 07:06, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thunderstorms have conspired to wreck my HDD. I bought a new one and now wish > to bring my desktop fully current with my laptop. It is simply unreasonably > slow to do it via MandrakeUpdate because of my dialup speed and phone usage > needs so I would like to sync my desktop with my laptop. My laptop goes to > work with me and gets to enjoy the speed of an ethernet connection, thus it > is painless for me to keep it updated. > > Last night I tried for perhaps an hour to figure out draksync without success. > I don't get the passphrase thing, as I can simply ssh or sftp between my two > systems using just my password. I did some man page reading and THOUGHT I > had it licked, trying 'ssh-keygen' but it appears I did not. I tried to > create a passphrase, but when that didn't work out, I decided to blow it off > and do the keygen and forego the passphrase. This didn't work either. > Whenever I try to draksync from either my desktop or laptop, I get asked for > a passphrase but no matter what, entering the passphrase I tried generating > and trying to send nothing when I decided against a passphrase, I get > rejected for not having a passphrase. > > What are the steps to get a working passphrase that will actually work with > draksync? This is new to me as I have usually simply sftp'd between my > systems and downloaded a bunch of rpms from my laptop to my desktop that I > downloaded on a given day. > > Any help here would be appreciated. > > praedor
Praedor. Do a search for laptop on Freshmeat. There are a number of "sync" tools specifically designed for this. I don't think any of them are in contribs but there is always the source route. As for syncing my laptop. I use gftp. It skips what's the same and transfers the rest (I only sync one way... and only data.) So I don't use / need any of them. But they are there.. James
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