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Re: [PLUG] How to manage your files among multiple PCs
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While yes, dropbox does work well for managing files between a
computer at home, and one at the office or on the road.. I wouldn't
want to use it for my home media files between all my home
computers/servers.
I use a d-link DNS-323 http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=509 NAS
unit. It's got 2 sata bays, gigabit ethernet, and runs an easily
hackable linux distro.
You can use it as smbfs/cifs mount, ftp, as well as a few other
protocols. I use mine to store all my multimedia content, and as a
backup drive.
It makes it very easy to pull what I want from anywhere in the house,
and using sftp with my server, makes it very easy to pull any files
when I'm on the road.
Chris Callie
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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