What's the best way to sync two laptops?

[Valery Reznic]

Mount your /home on external hard drive and move drive from one laptop to another?

Valery.




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> From: Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
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>Subject: What's the best way to sync two laptops?
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>I now have two laptops which I'll use somewhat interchangeably. What's a good way to sync work between them?
>
>My main job is teaching, so I have many teaching notes and other
>documents. Dropbox might be a good way to sync these. I'm going to be
>doing some 3D design so I'll have inkscape and blender files as well.
>Dropbox again, I think.
>
>What about browsing stuff? History, passwords, bookmarks. I use
>Vimperator, which has such a good history mechanism I rarely use
>bookmarks but rely heavily on history. I could put my entire .mozilla
>directory in Dropbox. In fact I could put all my . files (cshrc, vimrc,
>etc.)
>
>How do you prefer to handle mail? Do you prefer to keep it on the server or on your local computer? If local, how do you sync multiple computers? If remote, how do you work with past messages when offline?
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>Up to now I've downloaded my gmail to my laptop and not deleted on the
>server. That gives me a local copy to work with if I have no Internet
>access, as well as an online backup I can access via my cellphone.
>
>Sent email is stored only on my laptop, meaning I don't have access to
>it when I'm away from my laptop.
>
>I've always felt this was not an ideal situation, but fixing this was
>not a high priority. Keeping everything on the server means I'll run out of space eventually, and keeping a local copy means I consume space on my hard drive.
>
>Concrete suggestions as well as your own personal experience and methods
>will be most appreciated.
>
>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.
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