Re: /home replication on laptop

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Torbjorn Pettersson wrote:

> Another way to do the home account sync is to put everything in
> it in CVS, and have one central CVS repository to syncronize
> with. It will also handle the problem where files get updated
> from two different ways quite nicely.

This works and is very elegant, but is *painfully* slow and uses a lot more disk
space on the server than is necessary (unless you really need to be able to
restore any previous state).

I used to do this, and switched to rsync, which is at least ten times faster for
an archive of any decent size.  (No, never timed them... :-)

Zeen,

-Adam P.

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