Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008 schrieb Chris Jones: > I would just like a confirmation that I can use debian live to create a > portable clone of a subset of my regular debian environment that I can > carry around on a CD/DVD and a USB flash drive. > > After reading the fine manual a couple of times, I'm pretty sure that's > what debian live proposes to do. > > If so, and if I spend a couple of weeks with friends or family and have > access to a computer .. how would I sync back my home machine with the > live environment .. things such as mailboxes, development/documentation > directories .. possible changes to configuration files .. software that > I installed while away from home .. etc.
Have a look to unison-gtk. After using my live-hdd I mount my usb-hdd on my desktop pc and sync my home-directory (which is separately on a stick or usb-hdd encrypted with luks and dm-crypt) cheers carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
