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