Re: laptop sharing home directory with desktop
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:12:19AM +0200, wim wrote:
> Luca Pireddu wrote:
> >I just got a laptop and I'm looking for a way to keep my home directories
> >on
> >the laptop and my desktop synchronised (possibly with the option of
> >excluding
> >some paths).
> >
> >Looking around it seems that the InterMezzo filesystem provides what I
> >want,
> >but it seems to be dead (no recent releases, nothing happening on the
> >mailing
> >lists). Scanning the Debian packages names for 'synchroni' showed two
> >other
> >potential candidate tools:
> >
> >1. Tra (still in early development)
> >2. Unison
> >
> >It seems that Unison is the best choice at the moment, but it would be
> >nice to
> >hear recommendations or advice from people with experience. I presume that
> >this is a problem that most laptop owners run into. How are you solving
> >it? Any recommended tools/solutions?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Luca
I'll second Unison. The Gui version unison-gtk is simple and easy to use. I use it for my laptop as well as keeping all of my various usb-keys in
sync with my desktop folders.
I recently moved all my home directories onto an NFS server and during the migration, used Unison to ensure there weren't any conflicts with file
versions. Getting the application to ignore paths temporarily/permanently is as easy as it could get.
Try it, you'll like it!
Branden
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