Am 24. Mar, 2020 schwätzte Patrick Scribus so: moin moin Patrick,
Hello, two of my computers have a similar role as desktop. The installed packages are nearly the same, the configuration is nearly the same and the stored data in /home also. Especially the texts, the pictures and the like require too much time and effort to keep in sync. At first I wrote a little script that uses the power of rsync. This is much better than no script at all. But I hope for a solution that automates this like in those talks from 10-15 years ago when they suggest to use coda. I would love to use coda but it seems like nobody is maintaining it since quite some time. What happened in the meantime? What do you guys use for similar tasks?
I use unison rather than rsync when I don't have to worry about hard links. For keeping /etc in sync, I have written small scripts that export an etckeeper repo to the replica machine to apply changes. dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections can be use to keep package parity. If you want something like coda I used to use MooseFS, which apparently is now LizardFS in the repo. Lots of people are using ceph. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # Linux Fest Northwest cancelled, working to get presentations online # https://www.lfnw.org/conferences/2020 # "The purpose of IT is to seamlessly and transparently provide the other # 9/10's of the iceberg for people who need to work with chunks # of floating ice." -- Strata Rose Chalup
