[FRIAM] Desktop & Laptop Coordination

[Roger Critchlow]

unison has always been good to me when synchronizing between Windows and
Linux, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/, and I see it's available
for OSX, too.  But the problem is always getting a bit tired of waiting for
the synchronization to complete when I'm in a hurry, so I don't do it.  I'm
using rsync onto a usb laptop drive for some purposes these days, but even
then the time involved is a bit tiresome, and the possibility of getting
mis-synchronized (ie, overwriting a newer file by accident) is present.

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On 9/27/06, Robert Holmes <robert at holmesacosta.com> wrote:
>
> Tim's post prompted me to see if there was a version of rsync for windows.
> The two options seem to be:
> (1) install cygwin - rsync comes as part of the package. (I'm not a great
> fan of cygwin so I decided against this approach)
> (2) install microsoft's resource kit tools for MS Server 2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en
> ). They include robocopy which isn't a clone of rsync but has pretty good
> functionality. It seems to have much tighter control of exactly what is
> getting synchronized than SyncToy does.
>
> R
>
>
>
>
> On 9/26/06, Tim Densmore <tim at backspaces.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:20, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > > So the question comes up: for FRIAMers having both a laptop and a
> > > desktop: what is your strategy for keeping the two in synch?  Or do
> > > you bother -- instead doing some sorts of things on the desktop, and
> > > other stuff on the desktop, with a small intersection.
> >
> > I use rsync for things I want on both - I also ssh to my workstation
> > frequently for access to stuff I don't really need on my lappy, but need
> > access to.
> >
> >
> >
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