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Re: [PLUG] How to manage your files among multiple PCs
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I agree. Dropbox works quite well for managing files between multiple
computers.
In addition to that, I also use rsync to manage files between my
laptop and 2 desktops. I manually run rsync pretty regularly to push
my changes to the other machines on my network. Though writing
crontabs wouldn't hurt either.
Note that none of the above takes the place of regular incremental
backups that are stored offsite.
-- Doug
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dropbox, Dropbox, Dropbox. Works on Windows, Linux and OS X. Limited
> in space, yes, but for non-media, it's plenty sufficient.
>
> --
> Doug Stewart
>
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Gordon Dexter <gordon@texasdex.com> wrote:
>
>> Way back when I only had one computer organizing my files was easy. I
>> had nice and organized folder heirarchy, with everything in it's
>> proper
>> place. I'm a packrat, so I accumulate lots of junk, but as long as I
>> put everything in the right place it worked nicely.
>>
>> Now I have a desktop, a server/HTPC that sometimes acts as a
>> desktop, an
>> Eee (with not much space), and a few server accounts, and everything
>> is
>> haphazard all over the place. My laptop has some files, my desktop
>> has
>> some different files, my server has a different set of files, and
>> everything is messy and disorganized. My media collection is in
>> spread
>> over two computers and my personal documents are sprawled out across
>> three or four, all the computers have some form of 'download'
>> directory
>> with some useful stuff, and I'm starting to forget where I put things.
>> I even have older copies of my home folder from old installs,
>> sitting in
>> subfolders of my current home directory.
>>
>> I have been running my own Dovecot IMAPS server, so email is
>> synchronized among all computers, and I just set up Xmarks BYOS so
>> bookmarks are similarly common. Those things are really nice, since I
>> don't have to think about what is on what computer, but I don't think
>> that would work for my media collection, at least in part because it
>> wouldn't fit on the server, and certainly not on my Eee.
>>
>> I want to figure out a better way to organize files. Network mounts
>> sound like the most obvious solution until my laptop is somewhere
>> without internet (or without port 22 outbound permitted).
>>
>> What do you guys do to organize your home directories, media
>> collections, sprawling document piles, etc? I've heard of people
>> using
>> versioning systems, network mounts with offline cache, etc. I'm
>> sort of
>> looking for a series of specific programs or practices that might be
>> integrated into a holistic system for managing my digital clutter.
>>
>> --Gordon
>>
>> P.S. Bonus points if my wife's Mac can use it for backups
>>
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