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From: Rodolfo Medina on 21 Jan 2010 05:40 Hi to all Debian users. I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I need now is: 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that really changed were copied, so to save useless time. Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two machines together. Thanks indeed for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Leonardo Canducci on 21 Jan 2010 05:50 unison (has a gtk frontend too) -- Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Joe on 21 Jan 2010 06:00 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to all Debian users. > > I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I > need now is: > > 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; > > 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home > directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that really > changed were copied, so to save useless time. > > Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two > machines together. > Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way. From what you say, I doubt that you are. If you are not, and don't want the complication of Samba or NFS, then you will need to learn some of the complication of rsync, which is the command-line program which is used by Unison. It is very versatile, but you will need only the most basic functions, and you will need to arrange a means of transfer between the machines. SSH is much simpler to organise than Samba, and is the preferred means anyway, and you may find one or other of the installations already has the SSH daemon running. If not, it's easy to organise with Debian. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Rob Owens on 21 Jan 2010 06:30 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:54:13AM +0000, Joe wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi to all Debian users. >> >> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I >> need now is: >> >> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; >> >> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home >> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that really >> changed were copied, so to save useless time. >> >> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected two >> machines together. >> > > Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and > destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba > file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way. > From what you say, I doubt that you are. > > If you are not, and don't want the complication of Samba or NFS, then > you will need to learn some of the complication of rsync, which is the > command-line program which is used by Unison. It is very versatile, but > you will need only the most basic functions, and you will need to > arrange a means of transfer between the machines. SSH is much simpler to > organise than Samba, and is the preferred means anyway, and you may find > one or other of the installations already has the SSH daemon running. If > not, it's easy to organise with Debian. > Don't forget rsync's --delete option, so that files that were deleted on the source will also be deleted on the target drive. I imagine Unison can do this too, but I've never used it. Anyway, make sure whatever method you choose handles deleted files properly. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Rodolfo Medina on 21 Jan 2010 06:50
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. >>> What I need now is: >>> >>> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; >>> >>> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home >>> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that >>> really changed were copied, so to save useless time. >>> >>> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never connected >>> two machines together. Thanks to all who replied! It seems that Samba and rsync are the two best way to do what I want. I regularly use rsync to do my daily backups, but: 1) how do I connect the two machines? Any special cable, and where to put it? 2) it seems to me that rsync processes *all* the files and not only the ones that really have changed, which would take long with my 2G home dir. Maybe some special option of rsync? Thanks again Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |