Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work > fine. What I >>> need now is: >>> >>> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; >>> >>> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home >>> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files > that really >>> changed were copied, so to save useless time. >>> >>> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never > connected two >>> machines together.
Andrew Malcolmson <andm...@gmail.com> writes: > Another vote here for Unison when changes can occur on either copy, as > the OP is doing. If only one end changes, then rsync or its derivations > such as rdiff-backup are great. Well, actually the changes will occur on one end at a time, so rsync seems the best to me. But the real difficulty I'm a bit worried about is that I'm waiting for shops to open so to go and buy a crosslink cable, and then? After plugging the two together, how shall I do the proper settings in order to be able use rsync? Thanks for any further help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
