Mount your /home on external hard drive and move drive from one laptop to
another?
Valery.
>________________________________
> From: Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com>
>To: IGLU Mailing list <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
>Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:47 AM
>Subject: What's the best way to sync two laptops?
>
>I now have two laptops which I'll use somewhat interchangeably. What's a good
>way to sync work between them?
>
>My main job is teaching, so I have many teaching notes and other
>documents. Dropbox might be a good way to sync these. I'm going to be
>doing some 3D design so I'll have inkscape and blender files as well.
>Dropbox again, I think.
>
>What about browsing stuff? History, passwords, bookmarks. I use
>Vimperator, which has such a good history mechanism I rarely use
>bookmarks but rely heavily on history. I could put my entire .mozilla
>directory in Dropbox. In fact I could put all my . files (cshrc, vimrc,
>etc.)
>
>How do you prefer to handle mail? Do you prefer to keep it on the server or on
>your local computer? If local, how do you sync multiple computers? If remote,
>how do you work with past messages when offline?
>
>Up to now I've downloaded my gmail to my laptop and not deleted on the
>server. That gives me a local copy to work with if I have no Internet
>access, as well as an online backup I can access via my cellphone.
>
>Sent email is stored only on my laptop, meaning I don't have access to
>it when I'm away from my laptop.
>
>I've always felt this was not an ideal situation, but fixing this was
>not a high priority. Keeping everything on the server means I'll run out of
>space eventually, and keeping a local copy means I consume space on my hard
>drive.
>
>Concrete suggestions as well as your own personal experience and methods
>will be most appreciated.
>
>Years ago I remember reading about someone who had everything checked in to
>CVS, including all his email. This allowed him to sync his computer at home,
>work, elsewhere using CVS. Interesting solution.
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