On 01/07/13 13:06, Xebar Saram wrote:
Hi all
I have been using dropbox since i started using orgmode a few weeks ago
(yeah im a neewb :)), which kinda works but i find it very annoying as
it keeps creating conflicted copies, isnt reliable on my Linux main
machine etc etc..
I was wondering what you guys do for syncing org files between PC's,
Os's, devices (android etc)..
I used to use Dropbox and git. However, as you have found I often got
"Conflicted Files". This is a particular problem if it happens in your
.git folder, because it can lead to a corrupt git repo. Even though I
have a remote git repo, this still lead to lots of wasted time trying to
sort out the mess.
Recently I have been using BitTorrent Sync from
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html So far this works
really well. If you are using Linux you need to do a bit of fiddling to
get it to run as your local user, as it doesn't preserve file
permissions. So if you are running it as a daemon files at the remote
end all get up being owned by root.
The default is for two way synchronization. However, it's easy to set up
one way sync. This is useful for backups. If you accidentally made a
change in your backup, you wouldn't want it pushed back to your aster
version.
I also run a cron job on my laptop, which is my main work machine. Every
hour this commits my org files to my git repo and pushes the changes to
my remote on a different computer.
Ian.
