Christian Rehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph Schlecht writes: > > Hi Everyone! > > > > I have three PC's and a laptop running debian. They are all networked > > together, one of the PC's is soon to be an NFS/NIS server. I am doing this > to > > share /home and other common directories. > > > > Sharing /home should be no problem for the PC's, however I don't know what > I > > am going to do with my laptop. Since I am always roaming other networks, I > > would like to have /home from my network replicated on my laptop and when > I > > get to my home network, sync up any changes that are made. > > > > Can I do this with NFS? I've considered the option of keeping /home on my > > laptop and when I'm on my home network, mount the NFS share on a 'dummy' > > directory and sync the two. However, this seems cumbersome and not very > > elegant. Is there a better solution? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > I use catchup (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/catchup/) to > synchronize my home on the laptop with my home on the PC at work. > This allows me to modify files on both homes and later synchronize > them. Instead of just deleting the old version of a file catchup may > also save the old file in a special directory. If the same file is > modified on both computers catchup does not overwrite the > modifications but renames one by adding the extension .alt so you can > solve the conflict manually. > > You may also use rsync or rdist but this allows you only to propagate > modifications from one PC to another without the advantages of > catchup. > > > Cheers, > Christian >
You could check out Coda. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu. I haven't tried it myself (yet), and there's no debian packages that I know of,but the client modifications are in the standard kernel and it sounds very interesting. To cite their website: "Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2" and "disconnected operation for mobile computing".... Regards -- ###################################################################### # Torbjörn Pettersson Phone +46-(0)8 411 81 16 # # Vattugatan 5 Mobile +46-(0)70 456 40 45 # # S-111 52 Stockholm, Sweden Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Web www.strul.nu/~tobbe # ######################################################################
