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Hi all, I currently do a considerable amount of my report writing on a usb drive, and when I'm finished I make a copy to my desktop box which has raid 1, and I do regular full backup and dvd burns.

 

The reason I work off a usb drive is that alot of the time I write on my laptop, but I also do work off my desktop box, so for me a usb drive is nice and flexible/convenient.

 

What program or process can be used to simply ensure that my desktop box and the usb drive are the same? I imagine I can continue to work off the usb drive as I currently do, moving it from desktop to laptop, but when I use my desktop it makes the copy on my desktop the same as that on the usb drive?

 

I see some suggest rsync or unison. Is anyone using these? Or are there other user friendly programs/processes?

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Try dropbox, as long as you have an internet connection, it will save the files, and they will appear on both machines when they synchronise.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/

 

you get 2GB for free. Or if you get referral, you'll get an extra 250MB for free, so I can give you a referral link if you want. I've been using dropbox for a while now and it's really cool. Files are encrypted before being saved on the external server.

 

otherwise, locally without internet access, you'll be needing things like rsync, etc.

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Just curios if GIT would work in these types of situations? I'm also looking to solve a similar situation for myself and a small group, but lack the expertise. I'll look into the suggestions mentioned already in this topic too. Two-way rsync sounds like a good feature for sure.

 

Thanks in advance.

G

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GlusterFS allows you to do two-way sync also although I've never used it:

 

http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS

 

but it's certainly interesting, because if you're using NAS/SAN storage like I've been playing around with recently with Openfiler, you can install glusterfs under Openfiler and expand your capabilities. Might be a bit too much for simple use though. But worth a mention.....

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