Tool for document management

[David Symons]

On 9/24/07, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>     I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project.
>
> ...
>
>  o backup my work on a machine separate from the machine(s) I'll be working on.
>
>  o sync across multiple machines.
>
>  o handle non-text data as well as some textual data.  The main file that is
> going to change most often is an OOo document (odt).  I'll also be storing any
> related files including Mindmap files (mm) and Writer's Cafe files.
>
>  o version might be nice in case I want to back out of large portions of the
> document or refer to previous verbage I had removed and want to reconsider.
>
>  o must be accessible on Windows and Linux (Debian/KUbuntu)

Hi Steve,

"Unison" does a similar job for me very nicely.  Note that it does not
do versioning and that the same version of Unison needs to be
installed on each machine.

You can learn more about it at
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/.  The Ubuntu packages are
"unison" and "unison-gtk" (for the gui front-end).

Hope this helps, Dave.
-- 
David Symons
Canberra, Australia
http://www.liberatedcomputing.net