Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:11:43AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> Allan Dreyer Andersen wrote:
> 
> > copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 PC
> > Do you have some ideas how to solve this?
> 
> I've been using CVS [1] for many years with good results:
> 
> 1.  I dedicate an older machine as a CVS server (currently Pentium 3 800
> MHz in DMZ behind an IPCop firewall [2] on a static IP).
> 
> 2.  For Windows machines, I use Cygwin [3] with DOS file endings.

SVN has explicit support for converting between dos and unix text
formats.

> 
> 3.  For binary files, I need to remember to add the file extension to
> cvswrappers.

IIRC SVN marks a file as binary automatically.

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RE: Some documents on 3 PCs

[David Christensen]

Allan Dreyer Andersen wrote:

> copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 PC
> Do you have some ideas how to solve this?

I've been using CVS [1] for many years with good results:

1.  I dedicate an older machine as a CVS server (currently Pentium 3 800
MHz in DMZ behind an IPCop firewall [2] on a static IP).

2.  For Windows machines, I use Cygwin [3] with DOS file endings.

3.  For binary files, I need to remember to add the file extension to
cvswrappers.


HTH,

David

[1] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/

[2] http://www.ipcop.org/

[3] http://www.cygwin.com/


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Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

[Allan Dreyer Andersen]

Jochen Schulz skrev:

During my studies, I had the same problem. First I tried unison, but I
found it too cumbersome. Then I switched to SVN and didn't regret it. In
the end I kept almost 1GB of data in my repository but common operations
were still fast. Today, I would probably try one of those distributed
VCSs like git because you cannot expect to always have network
connectivity. But SVN still is a good choice, so if you already know it
(or CVS, which is very similar) I propose you try that first.
  
Thanks a lot for your input Jochen and Clifford. I'll look into more of 
SVN, VCS and Unison.

It's very much appreciated.

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Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

[Jochen Schulz]

Allan Dreyer Andersen:
> 
> Right now I'm copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3  
> PC and it's a hell. And from time to time I miss copying specific files  
> with updates ... so there must be a better way to handle all this.

During my studies, I had the same problem. First I tried unison, but I
found it too cumbersome. Then I switched to SVN and didn't regret it. In
the end I kept almost 1GB of data in my repository but common operations
were still fast. Today, I would probably try one of those distributed
VCSs like git because you cannot expect to always have network
connectivity. But SVN still is a good choice, so if you already know it
(or CVS, which is very similar) I propose you try that first.

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Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

[Clifford W. Hansen]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 10:03:55 Allan Dreyer Andersen wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a laptop, a desktop both with Debian and another laptop provided
> by my work with Windows XP.
>
> Right now I'm copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3
> PC and it's a hell. And from time to time I miss copying specific files
> with updates ... so there must be a better way to handle all this.
>
> Do you have some ideas how to solve this? I'm thinking to setup a server
> and some SVN system, but is this the best way solving it or do you have
> other suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
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> Allan Dreyer Andersen

I would suggest unison, I use it at home to sync my work laptop with my home 
fileserver (it's just a nfs/samba server and is not required)

Unison[1] is available for windows[2], and is in the Debian repositories[3].

NB. make sure the versions are the same across all the machines you are 
syncing...

[1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
[2] http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/index.html
[3] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unison

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Some documents on 3 PCs

[Allan Dreyer Andersen]

Hi all

I have a laptop, a desktop both with Debian and another laptop provided 
by my work with Windows XP.


Right now I'm copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 
PC and it's a hell. And from time to time I miss copying specific files 
with updates ... so there must be a better way to handle all this.


Do you have some ideas how to solve this? I'm thinking to setup a server 
and some SVN system, but is this the best way solving it or do you have 
other suggestions?


Thanks a lot in advance.

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Allan Dreyer Andersen


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