On Aug 14, 06 20:41:39 +0200, Marius Roets wrote:
On 8/14/06, DataIntellect
wrote: I have 2 laptops that I use for various contract work. I would like to find a method/tool which will alow me to easily keep a set of directories on both machines in sync. Any suggestions?
unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Of course also packaged for SL10.1 Works perfectly for me.
Like Stephan said, SVN (Subversion) is your friend. I have my whole life in subversion (no pun intended). I have an external HD with the svn repository. Everytime I change something (anything from .bashrc to spreadsheets to code) I just commit my changes to svn. Then I plug the HD into one of my other machines, type "svn update" and voila. I use
For me this would be much too manual. It won't work well with large changing datasets. Merge conflicts will be handled less flexible.
rsync too, but for big volumes of less important stuff. I once rsynced the wrong way, and wiped my stuff I was trying to backup, something that cannot happen with svn.
rsync is one-way only. unison uses the rsync protocol for two-way
syncing.
Matthias
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