Syncing two home directories

[Cameron Hutchison]

Once upon a time Matt Zimmerman said...
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:03:26PM -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if there is a way I could sync my home directory on my
> > laptop with the one on my desktop.  I am looking for something that I
> > could run a network script with or something?  I just do alot of work on
> > the move with the laptop than have to scp it all over when I get home.
> > Is there a tool for this?
> 
> You can find 'unison' in universe.

As added weight, I use unison in the same way you want to use it - ie. I
have a laptop I use at work every day and my desktop at home. I keep the
home directories synchronised with unison.

It is not something you would necessarily run automatically in the
background, since it possible to have conflicts between the replicas. I
manually run unison-gtk (a gtk front-end to the text-based unison),
review the list of differences it brings up, possibly manually resolve
conflicts and then let it sync the machines.

If you do go with unison, feel free to contact me about it - I've spent
a bit of time configuring it to be just right for me and have explored
most of the options it presents.