Syncing two home directories

[John Hornbeck]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:49 +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Unison is great.  I have it running and moving files accross. Thanks
guys.
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John Hornbeck
http://hornbeck.freeshell.org/blogger