> Hi folks, > > beeing tired of synchronizing configfiles, browser's bookmarks > and several other folders between various boxes in my LAN I came > up with the idea to store my homedirectory remotely on my fileserver (a > quite powerful Debian Woody box, XFS filesystem, recent kernel). > > So far, so good. If I had only desktops in my LAN, this wouldn't be > much of a problem, perhaps Sun's NFS would be the choice (easy to set > up, security concerns are not that important in my private LAN), or > Samba, as I have experience with both of those two filesystems. > > But having a laptop I do pretty much work on I need something that > allows "disconnected operation", that is: Caching the files accessed > while network is unavailable and even having some files cached > "sticky", like .dotfiles and similar stuff. This is important > so I can work with the laptop if I'm not at home. > > After reconnection to the server, things should be synchronized again.
As it turns out, rsync is quite a useful tool for this, although it's obviously not a filesystem. In my ~/.bashrc: alias home-up="rsync -avz -e ssh --exclude downloads/ ~/ master:~/" alias home-down="rsync -avz -e ssh --delete --exclude downloads/ --exclude ogg/ music/ master:~/ ~/" I type 'home-down' when I'm taking my laptop away, and 'home-up' when I bring it back to sync with other things. I don't care to have a bunch of stuff cluttering up my laptop so I exclude a few directories when downloading. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
