Re: [PLUG] How to manage your files among multiple PCs

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

The other nice thing about dropbox is that it's completely automatic.
Copy a file to ~/Dropbox, and it automatically gets copied to any
other box where you're running dropbox.  Unison seems like a manual
process; you've got explicitly run a command every time you want it to
sync.

Walt

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 01:56:07PM -0400, Gordon Dexter wrote:
> I would indeed prefer to keep my private documents out of the 'cloud' so unison sounds like what I'm looking for, although the version control that dropbox has would be nice. 
> 
> Randall A Sindlinger <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:43:35AM -0400, Douglas Muth wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >
> >Alright, I'll chime in here, too.
> >
> >Unison is conceptually a 2-way rsync with smarts, and unlike Dropbox,
> >does *not* use any 3rd party storage (may be a plus for some).
> >
> >http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> >
> >I haven't had cause to use it (or Dropbox, either) since my 
> >computing is vastly file-server based.  But folks who use it
> >seem to really like it.  Disclaimer: I know of this project
> >primarily because the creator is a professor here at Penn.
> >
> >Even if you don't want to use it, it's worth reading the 
> >homepage.  Its feature set and design paradigm are pretty neat.
> >
> >-Randall
> >
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