On 8/14/06 2:18 PM, "stephan beal" wrote:

On Monday 14 August 2006 18:51, DataIntellect wrote:

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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?

Google is your friend: rsync is what you're looking for.

Alternately, if you're synching mainly text files, i would set up a CVS or SVN server on one of the machines and use that for synchronization.

The SVN idea is a great one, because it also allows for revision control, and for the possibility of rolling work back if something doesn't work out the way that it should... I've set it up for a couple of smaller offices that needed very, very cheap central/sync'able storage, and a way to track changes...worked like a charm.

On Aug 14, 06 20:41:39 +0200, Marius Roets wrote:

On 8/14/06, DataIntellect wrote:

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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 -- Matthias Hopf __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:43 +0100, Pete Connolly wrote:

On Monday 14 August 2006 17:51, DataIntellect wrote:

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Hi List;

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?

As others have mentioned, SVN and rsync are good choices. There's also ifolder

unison is also worth a look, if you really want to keep them in sync all the time without thought. Cheers, Dave