On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Hyrum Wright said: > I've got the good ol' desktop at home, along with a headless server in > my closet and a laptop that I use between school and work. I bring the > laptop home every evening, generally because I've made progress on > things on the laptop, which I then want to work on on the desktop, > because it is a much better box. The main question then, is this: What > would be an easy way to sync the desktop with the laptop every evening, > and do the opposite in the mornings when I leave for school again? I've > contemplated things such as NFS mount points on the server for both the > laptop and the desktop, but I'm not sure what the best way to do it > would be. Thanks. > > -Hyrum
Recently, I've had _very_ good success with unison. I've been using it to sync my thesis and related programs between my laptop, my desktop, and a Single Board Computer. I can do my work on the laptop or the other machines, and the changes are syncronized by unison. It can tell which files have been modified where, and only starts barfing if both copies have changed. Even then, it'll show diffs, and you can either merge the changes or modify the files manually. http://freshmeat.net/projects/unison/?topic_id=19%2C141%2C142%2C150%2C253 or http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
