[plug] automating the syncing of my laptop/work/home

[Russell Steicke]

William Kenworthy wrote:
> I am looking at automating (scripting) the syncing my laptop/work/home
> to some remote directories across multiple machines/OS's for backup,
> access when the laptop is standalone etc.  Only some are on machines
> with rsync,which I have used in the past, but all have ftp/scp.  I have
> just been reading about "fmirror" and it may do the trick - but does it
> do a two way sync?  Is there an scp alternative?

I've never used it, but you might have a look at coda: "Coda is a 
distributed filesystem..", and one of its features is "disconnected 
operation for mobile computing".

   http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/

There's also a thing called unison

   http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

which has a package in woody, if you're on debian.  It claims not to 
need kernel changes or root access.

BTW, freshmeat searches for "synchroniz file" and "distributed file 
system" will find both of these, plus more.



-- 
Russell Steicke

AU National Linux Conference 2003: http://conf.linux.org.au/