Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi to all Debian users. I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I need now is: 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that really changed were copied, so to save useless time. Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two machines together.
Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way. From what you say, I doubt that you are.
If you are not, and don't want the complication of Samba or NFS, then you will need to learn some of the complication of rsync, which is the command-line program which is used by Unison. It is very versatile, but you will need only the most basic functions, and you will need to arrange a means of transfer between the machines. SSH is much simpler to organise than Samba, and is the preferred means anyway, and you may find one or other of the installations already has the SSH daemon running. If not, it's easy to organise with Debian.
-- Joe