On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:31:43 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > I want to sync up (2) portables, down to every file (including > dot files, email boxes etc) using unison. This only applies > to the user's home dir, not any other files. I have to be ready to > travel at a moments notice and fix equipment for a variety of > installations. I have identical setups on both portables, > one is a p4 the other an amd64(turion). I cannot be caught > in a situation where my portable is not ready for field support. > Are there any files in my home dir that I should exclude from unison > as they will be different, (due to the nature of the different > arch's of the machines)? > > I do maintain identical world files on each machine as well as > similar make.conf entries(except for arch related stuff). > > Off hand, I cannot think of any so I should just be able to point > unison to the user's home dir (/home/james) and duplicate > EVERYTHING?? > > I do have both system setup to only poll for email when I manually > request it, but, that's all I can think of.
The only things you are likely to want to exclude are config files, such as the mail config you mention. You also need to be sure that changes "take"; for example if you sync your Konqueror bookmarks and Konqueror is running, it will write its in-memory bookmarks to disc when it exits, overwriting the ones you just copied over. You can avoid this by logging out of the desktop on the destination machine before syncing. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they shouldn't have, resulting in what shouldn't have. In short, a short.
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