[sf-lug] What's the best way to sync two laptops?

[Michael Shiloh]

Sometimes I miss the old days of running my own server in my garage.

What you describe is how I did it in the old days, and yes, I used CVS 
back then too.

Now I have no personal server, and I don't think I have a static IP either.

M

On 11/29/2011 09:37 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Michael Shiloh (michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com):
>
>> I now have two laptops which I'll use somewhat interchangeably.
>> What's a good way to sync work between them?
>
> rsync over ssh.
>
>> How do you prefer to handle mail?
>
> How *I* prefer to handle mail is an artifact of my basic approach to
> computing, which most people do not share.  (I notice your use of
> third-party webmail, for example.)  My basic approach is to do all my
> substantive computing on my linuxmafia.com server, so all my mail
> remains right there on the SMTP host, and I interact with it locally on
> the server via instances of the mutt MUA running 24x7 under GNU screen
> sessions that keep them running and accessible via ssh from wherever in
> the world I am at the moment.
>
> That happens to match my preferred computing model, and the fact that I
> really like mutt.  However, for most other folks, that would not appeal.
> (But you did ask.)
>
>> If remote, how do you work with past messages when offline?
>
> I don't.  That's the one drawback to my model (to the extent one might
> wish to do e-mail offline, which I really don't).
>
>
>> Years ago I remember reading about someone who had everything checked in
>> to CVS, including all his email. This allowed him to sync his computer
>> at home, work, elsewhere using CVS. Interesting solution.
>
> Joey Hess, friend of mine.  Of course, any other VCS will work, and his
> article in _Linux Journal_ (preserved on his Web site) about that used
> CVS for the implementation because it was indeed many, many years ago.
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/cvshome/
> Later, he used SVN:
> http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/
> Today, Joey does it using git.
>
> There's a mailing list and related wiki for people doing such things:
> http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
> http://vcs-home.branchable.com/
>
> You'll find via the wiki and mailing list simple recipes based on
> people's experiences doing it.
>
>
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