syncing PC and laptop

[Todd Slater]

On 6/22/06, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> Joerg Desch wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:34:21 +0200
> > Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> >
> >> I haven't been able to find anything for syncing my laptop and pc to
> >> each other so they always have the same files in specific directories -
> >> is there anything out there I've missed?
> >
> > As mentioned before, unison is a good choose.
>
> I'm not sure why I'm so blessed but when using unison to synchronize to
> Windows machines, one ubuntu, and a flash stick, something always gets
> lost.  Sometimes permissions gets a wrong (Windows or Linux side),
> sometimes changes are missed and all in all, I have found unison to be
> sufficiently unreliable that I cannot count on it.
>
> Another synchronizer tra has really good theory behind it for N-way
> synchronization but unfortunately the project died the classic open
> source death because the people involved weren't able to create enough
> momentum or visibility so it would carry on.
>
> In the commercial world, it's not much better.  I'm trying out a couple
> of different tools that seem to sort of kind to work in 2-way
> synchronization.  I'm going to add flash memory as a backup device and
> see how it all works.
>
> from what I can tell,in general, folks just don't understand multinode
> and the multiprofile synchronization well enough to create a good solution.
>
> ---eric

The flash stick may be the problem. I've used Unison to sync
windows-mac-linux without incident, but I recall running into problems
when I tried to sync to a usb pen drive. I think it had something to
do with FAT, but I don't remember exactly.

Todd