What's the best way to sync two laptops?

[Michael Shiloh]

Also a nice idea, but I like the idea of redundant backups (if one 
laptop gets stolen or broken)

On 11/27/2011 09:38 PM, Valery Reznic wrote:
> Mount your /home on external hard drive and move drive from one laptop
> to another?
>
> Valery.
>
>     *From:* Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
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>     *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 12:47 AM
>     *Subject:* What's the best way to sync two laptops?
>
>     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?
>
>     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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