On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:54:13AM +0000, Joe wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi to all Debian users. >> >> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What >> I >> need now is: >> >> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; >> >> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home >> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that >> really >> changed were copied, so to save useless time. >> >> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two >> machines together. >> > > Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and > destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba > file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way. > From what you say, I doubt that you are. > > If you are not, and don't want the complication of Samba or NFS, then > you will need to learn some of the complication of rsync, which is the > command-line program which is used by Unison. It is very versatile, but > you will need only the most basic functions, and you will need to > arrange a means of transfer between the machines. SSH is much simpler to > organise than Samba, and is the preferred means anyway, and you may find > one or other of the installations already has the SSH daemon running. If > not, it's easy to organise with Debian. > Don't forget rsync's --delete option, so that files that were deleted on the source will also be deleted on the target drive. I imagine Unison can do this too, but I've never used it. Anyway, make sure whatever method you choose handles deleted files properly.
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