Big Brother tells me that Christian Rehn wrote: > Joseph Schlecht writes: > > I use catchup (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/catchup/) to > synchronize my home on the laptop with my home on the PC at work. > This allows me to modify files on both homes and later synchronize > them. Instead of just deleting the old version of a file catchup may > also save the old file in a special directory. If the same file is > modified on both computers catchup does not overwrite the > modifications but renames one by adding the extension .alt so you can > solve the conflict manually. > > You may also use rsync or rdist but this allows you only to propagate > modifications from one PC to another without the advantages of > catchup.
Actually, rsync does have options to save files instead of deleting
them by backing them up to special directory or by adding an extension
to them.
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