[Techtalk] What is you backup strategy for home use?
Teri Solow
tsolow at terisolow.com
Tue Feb 22 11:53:37 EST 2005
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conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com imparted (2005-02-22 @ 00:10:57 +0000):
> A little hack on that may be handy for keeping your laptops in sync with
> the home $HOME directories. AFAIK you can't do it automatically but a
> sync-laptop-from-server.sh and a sync-server-from-laptop.sh script
> depending on which way you want to go. Of course you still run into
> problems when you've made changes on both laptop and server. Actually,
> come to think of it, subversion might be the way to go...
Alternately, you can rsync whichever/all home directories, or if you
only want certain things synced you may want to look into Unison
(http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) which is reasonably smart
about such things, and is at least as good as a self-written sync
script :)
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