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How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories?
digitalderbs writes "A problem plaguing most people with multiple computers is the arduous task of synchronizing files between them: documents, pictures, code, or data. Everyone seems to have their own strategies, whether they involve USB drives, emailed attachments, rsync, or a distributed management system, all of which have varying degrees of success in implementing fast synchronization, interoperability, redundancy and versioning, and encryption. Myself, I've used unison for file synchronization and rsnapshot for backups between two Linux servers and a Mac OS X laptop. I've recently considered adding some sophistication by implementing a version control system like subversion, git, or bazaar, but have found some shortcomings in automating commits and pushing updates to all systems. What system do you use to manage your home directories, and how have they worked for you for managing small files (e.g. dot configs) and large (gigabyte binaries of data) together?"
I embed all my documents in porn and post them on various web forums. The recovery procedure involves spidering my spam folder. I recently found my high school history term paper in a jpg of Marylin Chambers.
Insightful and funny are really the same thing, except one has a punch line.
No - he was trying for 5, but only got -1!
Also, get off my lawn!
...to print documents off my main computer, then a scanner to get those documents onto my second computer.
I then repeat the process in the other direction to create a seamless 'bidirectional' sync solution.
For video, I simply record the footage off the monitor using a camcorder, which I carry with me. My video, on the move.
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
>> ... how I do it on the cheap (I'm a grad student)
>>... from work/school/iphone
Er.. never mind..