[Linux-disciples] Synching a laptop

[Jason Smith]

On Nov 28, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> In the still-halfway-fantasy department, I may be getting a
> laptop within the next couple months; it just makes sense
> for me as an IT consultant. Now I'm thinking about the
> details of laptophood, and one question comes to mind: how
> do I keep my desktop's and laptop's home directories
> synchronized? Every time my laptop goes online, I'd like it
> to synch with the mothership. What's the best way to do
> this? And is it even advisable? I can see running rsync on a
> cron job every minute or so, but that seems like a kludge. I
> assume there are readymade solutions to handle this kind of
> synching. What do you guys recommend?

I am guessing you aren't going with an Apple. But, isn't this a feature 
that will be incorporated in the Tiger release of OS X?