What's the best way to sync two laptops?

[Michael Shiloh]

Indeed. I've used Dropbox a bit and had exactly that experience, 
especially with dot files.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll take a look at SpiderOak. (I will 
certainly use your referral if I do decide to use it.)

Michael

On 11/27/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 00:47, Michael Shiloh
> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If you go with dropbox, you may find yourself creating an awful lot of
> symlinks to get everything you want synchronized.
>
> I personally prefer SpiderOak; same basic idea, but a lot more
> customizeable. They claim client side encryption with no keys stored
> on the server; the codebase is not open source so it's hard to tell
> for sure, but they talk a better talk than DropBox.
>
> [Full disclosure; I have a spideroak account, and if you want to try
> them, I'd be happy if you'd use this referral link
> https://spideroak.com/download/referral/a2c5a8d4bd5bfb6b748c0a912cd30aeb
> ; it's an extra 1GB for each of us . Note that their normal free
> accounts start at 2GB, but I'm pretty sure that either
> "worldbackupday" or "hurricanesafe" are still valid coupons for 5GB
> (or 6GB if you use the referral link]
>
> -- Mike
>
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