[Linux-disciples] Synching a laptop

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2004-11-28T18:49:17-0500, 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 would recommend against automatic (periodic) synchronization.  I would
recommend Unison.

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