[ale] Syncing two machines

Matt Kubilus mattkubilus at gmail.com
Wed May 2 22:07:51 EDT 2007


I haven't used it, but there is a project called unison which might do
what you want.

-Matt

On 5/2/07, danverde <danverde at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 8:42:17 am Brad Peters wrote:
> > I have a laptop and a desktop, and what I want to do is keep a few
> > directories in sync.  I can use rsync for this,   It's been a while since
> > I've used rsync, but if I were to sync from my desktop to my laptop (given
> > that my desktop has an empty dir and the laptop has the files I want), it
> > would copy from the laptop over, or vice versa.  If so, then that might be
> > what I want.
> >
> > Does anyone else out there do syncing between desktop / laptop?  If so,
> > I'd love to hear what you're using.  Eventually I want to write a script
> > to check if the desktop is online from the laptop and automatically
> > perform a sync.
> >
>
> Since I do this on an as needed basis, I use an interactive gui tool like krusader.  It will allow me to mount remote file systems with ssh (fish) and then let me select directories or files to synchronize.
>
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